Martin Salzman is head of Schwartz Cooper's Banking & Lending practice.  He concentrates his practice in the banking field, including lending, commercial litigation, restructuring and bankruptcy. He has had extensive experience in drafting loan agreements involving asset and non-asset based, different types of collateral, both real estate and non-real estate, leveraged and syndicated transactions.

Mr. Salzman has litigated a variety of matters for financial institutions including foreclosures, lender liability suits, midnight deadline and check kiting cases, suits on guaranties and other collection matters. He has also worked on numerous bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy workouts, as well as foreclosures of assets under the Uniform Commercial Code. 

Mr. Salzman regularly gives seminars to his clients on matters of current interest. His most recent lecture related to the impact of the revised Uniform Commercial Code on financial institutions.

Mr. Salzman is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.* 

*CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

Bar Admissions & Memberships

• Illinois

Education

• J.D. - Georgetown University, 1971
• B.A. - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1968
• B.S. - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1968