Overview
Mia D’Andrea is a partner in Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and a member of the Litigation Group. She joined the firm in 2012.
Mia's practice encompasses a wide range of complex commercial litigation issues, with an emphasis on commercial real estate transactions, consumer finance litigation, contract disputes, and commercial lending/restructuring issues. She advises clients on matters concerning loan repayment and restructuring, loan purchase, and real estate issues.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mia was an associate with the law firm of Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo in Charlotte, North Carolina. She also worked as a Guardian Ad Litem with the Center for Children’s Rights, where she served as an advocate for children in high-conflict divorce and custody cases.
Representative Matters
- Represented a secured creditor in connection with its full recovery in the bankruptcy of an automobile dealer/lender (BHPH facility), which included advising on the negotiation of a restructuring support agreement, DIP financing, cash collateral use and financing order, cash management order, and the plan of reorganization and exit financing
- Obtained dismissal for lender in multimillion-dollar federal racketeering lawsuit involving allegations of commercial lending fraud
- Obtained the overturning of a ruling in a case involving Cook County mortgage foreclosure rules
- Successfully obtained summary judgment in complex multi-party litigation
- Successfully represented financial institution at trial in commercial forcible entry and detainer action
- Represented major lending institutions on multimillion-dollar credit facilities
- Defended banking client against allegations of forgery, resulting in dismissal of action
Practice Focus
- Bank Defense
- Commercial Foreclosure and Real Estate Litigation
- Commercial Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Consumer Finance Litigation
- Corporate Trust and Agency Services
- Mortgage and Home Equity Lending
- Real Estate Finance
- Restructuring and Bankruptcy
- Special Situations and Restructuring
Memberships
Chicago Bar Association
Honors & Awards
- Chapman and Cutler's 2012 Pro Bono Honor Roll
- Chapman and Cutler's 2013 Pro Bono Honor Roll
- Chapman and Cutler's 2017 Pro Bono Honor Roll
Admitted
North Carolina
Illinois
U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Education
University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., 2009
- Member, North Carolina Law Review
- Notes Editor, North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology
- Counsel, University of North Carolina Juvenile Justice Clinic
Ursinus College, B.S., Communications and Psychology, magna cum laude, 2003
Insights
Publications
- Co-Author, "The New Illinois Trust Code: What It Means for Trustees and Trustmakers, Part IV," Client Alert. December 2, 2019.
- Co-Author, "The New Illinois Trust Code: What It Means for Trustees and Trustmakers, Part III," Client Alert. October 1, 2019.
- Co-Author, "The New Illinois Trust Code: What It Means for Trustees and Trustmakers, Part II," Client Alert. August 19, 2019.
- Co-Author, "The New Illinois Trust Code: What It Means for Trustees and Trustmakers," Client Alert. July 15, 2019.
- Co-Author, "Supreme Court Unanimously Holds That Debt Purchasers Are Not Debt Collectors in Justice Gorsuch’s Landmark First Opinion," Client Alert. June 13, 2017.
- Co-Author, "Victory for Debt Collectors in First of Two Landmark Supreme Court Cases," Client Alert. May 19, 2017.
- Co-Author, "Dass v. Yale: Illinois Allows LLC Members to Avoid Liability for Personal Torts," Client Alert. May 8, 2014.