Amy E.Simpson
Partner
Real Estate Finance
asimpson@seyfarth.com
Through her extensive work with lenders and servicers, Amy brings a practical, industry-focused perspective to complex commercial real estate finance law matters.
More About Amy
With a distinctive national real estate finance law practice, Amy represents lenders, commercial mortgage loan servicers, life insurance companies, co-lenders, and other institutional participants in sophisticated commercial real estate finance law and servicing matters.
Amy advises clients across the full life cycle of commercial real estate loans, with particular depth in complex servicing matters involving both securitized and non-securitized loans. Her experience includes loan originations, modifications, assumptions, and other transactions and matters arising during the life of a loan. She also has significant experience with CMBS and Freddie Mac securitizations, regulatory issues affecting securitizations, portfolio and warehouse servicing agreements, B-Piece investor purchases of securities, and the sale of servicing rights.
Amy serves as the managing partner of Seyfarth’s Dallas office and leads the Dallas Real Estate team.
Amy advises clients across the full life cycle of commercial real estate loans, with particular depth in complex servicing matters involving both securitized and non-securitized loans. Her experience includes loan originations, modifications, assumptions, and other transactions and matters arising during the life of a loan. She also has significant experience with CMBS and Freddie Mac securitizations, regulatory issues affecting securitizations, portfolio and warehouse servicing agreements, B-Piece investor purchases of securities, and the sale of servicing rights.
Amy serves as the managing partner of Seyfarth’s Dallas office and leads the Dallas Real Estate team.
- JD, Texas Tech University School of Law
Summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
Texas Tech Law Review, managing editor
- Texas
Related Services
- Advised commercial mortgage loan servicers in connection with the administration and servicing of multifamily, office, industrial, retail, manufactured housing, and mixed-use assets, including leasing matters, easements, SNDAs, and other collateral-related transactions.
- Counseled CMBS master servicers, primary servicers, and special servicers regarding their respective rights and obligations under various pooling and servicing agreements.
- Counseled mortgage loan servicers and asset managers regarding loan assumptions, maturity extensions, modifications, payoffs, forbearance arrangements, transfers of ownership interests, and other servicing matters involving commercial real estate portfolios nationwide.
- Representation of institutional lenders and mortgage loan servicers in connection with real estate loan workouts, restructurings, and foreclosures.
- Representation of institutional lenders in connection with the origination of commercial real estate loans secured by industrial, warehouse, and other commercial properties, including multistate and cross-collateralized financing transactions exceeding $400 million.
- Representation of institutional lenders in connection with the origination of secured loans, including those intended for sale in the secondary securitization market.
- Representation of life insurance companies and other institutional lenders in connection with the origination, negotiation, and closing of complex commercial mortgage loans, including loans intended for securitization and secondary market transactions.
Related News & Insights
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Seyfarth Event
Sep 29, 2026
Seyfarth Servicing Summit
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Legal Update
Sep 22, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (September 2026)
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Firm News
Aug 20, 2026
362 Seyfarth Attorneys Recognized in 2027 Best Lawyers Rankings; Five Awarded "Lawyer of the Year"
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Legal Update
Jun 24, 2026
What's Now in Real Estate Finance (May/June 2026)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2027)
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Real Estate, The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2024)
- Selected to Connect CRE for Lawyers in Real Estate (2023)
- American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Fellow (2026-present)
- Dallas Bar Association
- Mortgage Bankers Association
- Commercial Real Estate Finance Council
- Authored, "The Shift in Property Preferences: How Life Companies Are Adjusting Portfolios Toward Multifamily and Industrial," The Abstract, American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA) (Fall 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (September 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 22, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (June 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 10, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 9, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)
Through her extensive work with lenders and servicers, Amy brings a practical, industry-focused perspective to complex commercial real estate finance law matters.
More About Amy
With a distinctive national real estate finance law practice, Amy represents lenders, commercial mortgage loan servicers, life insurance companies, co-lenders, and other institutional participants in sophisticated commercial real estate finance law and servicing matters.
Amy advises clients across the full life cycle of commercial real estate loans, with particular depth in complex servicing matters involving both securitized and non-securitized loans. Her experience includes loan originations, modifications, assumptions, and other transactions and matters arising during the life of a loan. She also has significant experience with CMBS and Freddie Mac securitizations, regulatory issues affecting securitizations, portfolio and warehouse servicing agreements, B-Piece investor purchases of securities, and the sale of servicing rights.
Amy serves as the managing partner of Seyfarth’s Dallas office and leads the Dallas Real Estate team.
Amy advises clients across the full life cycle of commercial real estate loans, with particular depth in complex servicing matters involving both securitized and non-securitized loans. Her experience includes loan originations, modifications, assumptions, and other transactions and matters arising during the life of a loan. She also has significant experience with CMBS and Freddie Mac securitizations, regulatory issues affecting securitizations, portfolio and warehouse servicing agreements, B-Piece investor purchases of securities, and the sale of servicing rights.
Amy serves as the managing partner of Seyfarth’s Dallas office and leads the Dallas Real Estate team.
- JD, Texas Tech University School of Law
Summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
Texas Tech Law Review, managing editor
- Texas
Related Services
- Advised commercial mortgage loan servicers in connection with the administration and servicing of multifamily, office, industrial, retail, manufactured housing, and mixed-use assets, including leasing matters, easements, SNDAs, and other collateral-related transactions.
- Counseled CMBS master servicers, primary servicers, and special servicers regarding their respective rights and obligations under various pooling and servicing agreements.
- Counseled mortgage loan servicers and asset managers regarding loan assumptions, maturity extensions, modifications, payoffs, forbearance arrangements, transfers of ownership interests, and other servicing matters involving commercial real estate portfolios nationwide.
- Representation of institutional lenders and mortgage loan servicers in connection with real estate loan workouts, restructurings, and foreclosures.
- Representation of institutional lenders in connection with the origination of commercial real estate loans secured by industrial, warehouse, and other commercial properties, including multistate and cross-collateralized financing transactions exceeding $400 million.
- Representation of institutional lenders in connection with the origination of secured loans, including those intended for sale in the secondary securitization market.
- Representation of life insurance companies and other institutional lenders in connection with the origination, negotiation, and closing of complex commercial mortgage loans, including loans intended for securitization and secondary market transactions.
Related News & Insights
-
Seyfarth Event
Sep 29, 2026
Seyfarth Servicing Summit
-
Legal Update
Sep 22, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (September 2026)
-
Firm News
Aug 20, 2026
362 Seyfarth Attorneys Recognized in 2027 Best Lawyers Rankings; Five Awarded "Lawyer of the Year"
-
Legal Update
Jun 24, 2026
What's Now in Real Estate Finance (May/June 2026)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2027)
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Real Estate, The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2024)
- Selected to Connect CRE for Lawyers in Real Estate (2023)
- American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Fellow (2026-present)
- Dallas Bar Association
- Mortgage Bankers Association
- Commercial Real Estate Finance Council
- Authored, "The Shift in Property Preferences: How Life Companies Are Adjusting Portfolios Toward Multifamily and Industrial," The Abstract, American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA) (Fall 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (September 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (September 22, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (June 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 10, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 9, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)