Scottland Glenn represents banks and other financial institutions in commercial real estate finance transactions, with a focus on multifamily, affordable housing and mortgage banking. He helps lenders structure and close complex loans by aligning credit priorities, regulatory requirements and documentation—across origination, closing, servicing, payoff and, when necessary, workouts and enforcement.
Scottland concentrates on the issues that most often drive timing, cost and enforcement outcomes, including borrower structure and authority, collateral and cash management, closing mechanics, and program-specific requirements in affordable housing transactions. He works closely with all deal participants—borrowers, co-counsel, title and escrow, agencies, investors, subordinate lenders and internal credit teams—to keep transactions moving and surface decision points early.
His experience includes documenting construction, bridge and permanent loans; tax-exempt and taxable financings for commercial real estate projects; intercreditor and capital stack arrangements; and affordable housing and agency program matters, including HUD, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae transactions. In distressed situations, he advises on workouts, deeds in lieu, foreclosures and other enforcement strategies, leveraging lender protections built at closing.
Before joining Sheppard, Scottland clerked for the Hon. Benjamin H. Settle of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. He serves on the firm’s Legal Opinion Committee and the OC Office Recruiting Committee. Outside the firm, he is active in community leadership, including board service with Seattle Repertory Theater and ArtsFund, and involvement with the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development.