Jared C. Helge

Jared Helge is a commercial and consumer banking attorney with extensive experience in corporate transactions and creditors’ rights. He advises national, regional, and local financial institutions, private equity funds, and other lenders on the negotiation and structuring of complex commercial lending transactions, including commercial real estate and asset-based loans.

Jared’s practice includes counseling clients on loan workouts, foreclosures, bankruptcies, and the enforcement of creditors’ rights. He also provides strategic guidance on the sale and acquisition of individual commercial loans and loan portfolios, and regularly advises consumer banking and mortgage servicing clients on foreclosure, default, title, real estate, regulatory compliance, and loss mitigation matters.

Representative Experience

• Counsel to national banking association in collection and workout of $1.6 million loan, including appointment of receiver, liquidation of business assets, and foreclosure of commercial real estate.
• Counsel to national banking association in restructure of $46 million in term loan facilities related to retail shopping mall.
• Counsel to trustee in $9 million disputed secured bond transaction involving tax credit real estate.
• Counsel to regional lender in documentation of $6.4 million in bonds to finance construction and equipping of new manufacturing facility.
• Counsel to regional lender in consolidation and restructure of $20 million secured term and revolving credit transaction with local manufacturer.
• Counsel to national banking association in restructure of $1.0 million agricultural loan, including liquidation of collateral and related bankruptcy matters.
• Counsel to regional lender in documentation of $70 million secured term and revolving credit transaction with multiple participant lenders.
• Counsel to agricultural lender in collection and workout of various agricultural loans, including foreclosure of agricultural real estate.
• Counsel to national agricultural lender in numerous secured credit transactions throughout Indiana ranging from $1 million to $35 million.

Professional Associations

• Member, Indiana State Bar Association
• Member, Allen County Bar Association
• Member, National Association of Development Companies

Civic Involvement

• Board of Directors, Erin's House for Grieving Children
• Board of Directors, Community Transportation Network

Awards & Recognitions

• AV Preeminent® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®
• Best Lawyers® 2025
  • Commercial Finance Law
  • Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
• Indiana Super Lawyers® 2023-2025
• Indiana Super Lawyers® Rising Star, 2015-2021

Seminars & Presentations

• Presenter, “The Secrets of Practicing Law in Fort Wayne,” Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana, February 2015
• Presenter, “Lawyer’s Perspective: The Birth, Life and Death of a Loan,” Northern Indiana Chapter of RMA, Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 2012

Publications

• Author, "2021 Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 Rule," July 26, 2021
• Author, "Indiana Changes Recording Requirements (Again)," February 19, 2021
• Author, "Indiana Changes Recording Requirements," June 26, 2020
• Author, "Making Demand on Guarantor," September 6, 2017
• Author, "Indiana Commercial Court Pilot Project," March 18, 2016

Education

• J.D., cum laude, Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana, 2007
• B.S. in International Business, Graduated with Honors, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2004

Bar & Court Admissions

• Indiana, 2007
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, 2007
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 2007

Practices

• Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy
• Financial Services
• Financial Institutions
• Commercial and Real Estate Lending

Industries

• Financial Services
• Financial Institutions