Jack Doherty
Partner

Overview
Jack Doherty is a litigator and real estate attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office. Mr. Doherty's practice focuses on high-stakes complex commercial litigation. He also represents institutional lenders, including national banks, special services and investment banks, in creditors' rights litigation, insolvency, loan restructurings and workouts in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Doherty has extensive experience in the representation of financial institutions and special servicers in connection with distressed real estate loans and the disposition of commercial properties. This includes creditor representation related to non-performing commercial loans and mezzanine loans involving the exercise of remedies, such as receiverships, replevin, judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, workouts, litigation, contested bankruptcy matters and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) sales. Mr. Doherty has protected lenders' interests in loans collateralized by hotels, retail, office, industrial, multifamily, healthcare properties, ground leases and pledged interests in personality.
Mr. Doherty also has represented corporate and individual parties across multiple industries in commercial litigations involving breach of contract, fiduciary duty, implied duty of good faith, fraud, misrepresentation, partnership-joint venture disputes, misappropriation of intellectual property and shareholder disputes. He is experienced in all phases of litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.
Representative Experience
Credentials
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
- College of the Holy Cross, B.A.
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
- One to Watch, The Best Lawyers in America guide, New York Commercial Litigation, 2021-2023; New York Real Estate Law, 2025
- Rising Star, New York Metro Super Lawyers magazine, Business Litigation, 2019-2024
- Holland & Knight Pro Bono All Star, 2021