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Meagen E. Leary

Partner, Duane Morris

415-957-3230meleary@duanemorris.com

Spear Tower
One Market Plaza, Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94105

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Meagen E. Leary is co-chair of the firm's Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group and serves on the firm's Executive Committee.  Leary maintains a national creditors' rightscommercial real estate finance and bankruptcy practice. Her clients include institutional lenders, CMBS servicers, REITs, debt funds and other diverse businesses. Leary and her team handle all aspects of commercial loan workouts, bankruptcies, real estate finance and lender liability litigation, and commercial loan and real estate transactions. In addition, she provides national, coordinating counsel and general counsel services to several clients. She is a frequent speaker and writer on legal and practical issues that impact her clients and an active member of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, as well as a member of the Council's Women's Network Advisory Board.

Leary is a 2004 cum laude graduate of Tulane University Law School, where she was a member of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal, and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers 2026 Creditors' Rights, Real Estate Finance, Bankruptcy
The 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers 2020