Adam M. Fishkind serves as the Office Managing Member of Dykema's Bloomfield Hills office, is the co-team leader of the Firm’s Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Special Servicer Group, and is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. According to Chambers USA 2021, clients describe Mr. Fishkind as “a solid lawyer and very knowledgeable" in the real estate arena. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Fishkind was a real estate attorney with a privately held corporation in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Fishkind represents all parties involved in real estate based transactions including investors, lenders, developers, owners, and operators. Mr. Fishkind advises clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including  the acquisition, disposition, development, leasing, management, financing, and syndication of a wide variety of real estate projects such as office buildings, industrial properties, telecommunications facilities, single family and multi-family communities, regional shopping malls, strip shopping centers, parking facilities, hotels, golf courses, and planned developments.

Mr. Fishkind advises real estate based business entities with respect to all aspects of formation and operation, including structure of organization, acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, dispositions, debt and equity financing, and real estate workouts.

Mr. Fishkind is also a member of the Firm's Financial Institutions Team and has significant experience representing national lending institutions and borrowers in the negotiation, structuring documentation and enforcement of commercial real estate acquisition loans, construction and land development loans and various other commercial lending transactions.

Bar Admissions

Illinois, 1994 (inactive)

Michigan, 1997

Education
DePaul University, J.D.

• Dean's Scholar

Michigan State University, B.A.

• with honors

Professional Associations

• State Bar of Michigan, Real Property Section
• Urban Land Institute
• International Council of Shopping Centers

Seminars/ Presentation

• 2004 - State Bar of Michigan, Real Property Section - "Annexation Workshop"

• Michigan Opens the Door for Expanded Solar Development on Farmland

  By Adam Fishkind |June 2019

• Commercial Lenders “Receive” Good News with Michigan’s Adoption of the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act

  By Adam Fishkind |May 2018

Additional Articles

• "Annexation: An Obscure Tool for Municipal Growth is Now a Weapon for Property Owners", ULI Detroit Insite, Co-Author