A commercial attorney with over 25 years as a business executive and nearly 16 years in Real Estate managing the process from all points of the transaction (sales agent, developer, landlord, tenant, attorney, owner, borrower, lender, purchaser, & seller).

Elkhatib successfully practices across multiple real estate litigation channels with a primary focus on representing receivers in mitigating Municipal Building Violations for abandoned, vacant or Zombie properties, navigating the receivership process from appointment to deed.

As a business executive, Elkhatib successfully managed, built and restructured small and medium sized corporations.  Elkhatib is especially intune with successfully overcoming the challenges that arise from a series of singular decisions, financial hurdles and growth pains that affect businesses at one time or another. 

A major key to his numerous legal successes comes from his understanding that litigation strategy is a science and an art and needs to be in step with the overall business strategy that generates successful outcomes for the clients.

Specialties: Municipal Building Code Violations, commercial and corporate transactions, negotiating and drafting of financal instruments, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, complex real estate transactions, foreclosures, title clearing and lien priorities, Receivership, secured lien transactions and priorities.