Michael J. Lubben

Michael J. Lubben is a Director of Gibbons P.C., practicing in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm's Distressed Situations Group. Mr. Lubben has had extensive experience with financial, corporate and business matters for a variety of private and public companies including healthcare companies, banks, governmental authorities and charter schools. Mr. Lubben’s practice focuses on transactional work, with an emphasis on real estate financing transactions, issues relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and cross-border transactions. He is also actively involved in the representation of companies in the healthcare field, both on a transactional basis and for general counsel purposes. He regularly counsels clients with respect to joint ventures and strategic alliances, shareholder disputes, sales, distribution and agency agreements, the formation and structure of business entities, and the merger, acquisition and disposition of business interests. He has represented investors, banks and other financial institutions, governmental authorities, and businesses in, among other matters, secured commercial financings, lease securitizations and financings (including mezzanine lending, sale-leasebacks and lease-leasebacks), syndications and participations in multi-lender financings, trading of distressed debt, bond indenture financings, securitizations, workouts of C & I loans, real estate loans, letters of credit, restructurings of large businesses and foreclosures. Mr. Lubben was elected chair of the Banking Law Section of the NJ State Bar Association in 2013 for a 2 year term.