Overview
Vivian Arias is a commercial litigator and real estate attorney who represents institutional lenders, including national banks, special servicers, and investment banks, in creditors' rights litigation, insolvency, loan restructurings and workouts in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. She focuses her practice on resolving real estate and lending disputes both in court, through securing appointment of receivers, litigating disputed foreclosures, and obtaining injunctive relief, and out of court, through Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) sales and negotiated and documented resolutions.
Ms. Arias also represents corporate and individual parties in contract and commercial disputes in arbitration and litigation in state and federal courts. She has substantial experience in all phases of commercial litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels, in disputes involving corporate breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and business torts.
Representative Experience
Credentials
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
- University of Miami, cum laude
- District of Columbia
- New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
- Holland & Knight Diversity & Inclusion Committee, New York Office Co-Chair
- Hispanic National Bar Association
- Association for the Bar of the City of New York
- New York State Bar Association
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow, 2016
- The Legal 500 USA, Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate, 2018; Real Estate – Finance, 2024
- Rising Star, New York Metro Super Lawyers magazine, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights: Business, 2011-2021
- Empire State Counsel, New York State Bar Association