East Meadow, NY Penni Stathakos has joined the commercial lending practice group at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP as an associate. She has experience in representing institutional lenders in real estate transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, for three years she was an associate at Sankel, Skurman & McCartin, LLP in Manhattan where she concentrated in the areas of commercial lending. In addition to performing closings, she drafted loan documents, including promissory notes, mortgages, assignments, and consolidation and subordination agreements. She drafted notes and line letters for commercial line of credit transactions and conducted due diligence examinations including title and survey examinations to insure a clear asset for the lender’s collateral.

She began her commercial lending practice as an associate at a Brooklyn-based law firm, where she worked for three years. Before she became an attorney, Stathakos was a title insurance processor and closer at a title insurance company in Brooklyn.

She earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Pace University School of Law in 2012, and her bachelor of science in Finance, magna cum laude, from St. Joseph’s College in 2008.

 While a law student, she interned at Keane & Beane, P.C. and clerked for The Honorable Richard A. Molea, the supervising judge of the Supreme and County Court Criminal Parts in the Ninth Judicial District.

She is admitted to practice in the state of New York and New Jersey. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar Association and the Hellenic Lawyers Association.