Adam M. Lynn advises financial institutions, developers, business owners, investors, entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth individuals on complex real estate, corporate, finance, and transactional matters. He serves as a trusted legal and business advisor to clients navigating acquisitions, financing transactions, growth initiatives, ownership transitions, and other strategic business decisions. Currently, Adam serves as the firm’s Managing Partner, where he oversees the firm’s strategic direction, financial performance, recruitment, attorney development, and operations across its four offices.
Adam has extensive experience representing local, regional, and national financial institutions in all aspects of commercial financing transactions, including commercial real estate lending, asset-based lending, loan workouts, and insolvency related matters. He regularly assists lenders and borrowers with the origination, negotiation, and closing of financing transactions throughout the United States. Adam’s real estate practice is exceptionally diverse. He represents developers, investors, lenders, landlords, tenants, and business owners in matters involving real estate acquisition, disposition, development, financing, leasing, and land use issues. As a licensed title insurance producer since 2015, Adam maintains heavy involvement with the firm’s title company, Tidemark Title Company.
An attorney with extensive business law experience, Adam regularly serves as outside general counsel to businesses and financial institutions. He advises clients on corporate governance, entity formation and structuring, mergers and acquisitions, ownership transitions, business succession planning, commercial contracts, risk management, and strategic growth initiatives. Adam’s practice frequently involves coordinating complex transactions that intersect business, real estate, finance, and estate planning considerations.
Prior to joining McAllister, DeTar, Showalter & Walker LLC (“MDSW”) at the firm’s inception in 2016, Adam practiced with Miles & Stockbridge P.C. for three years after beginning his legal career at a Maryland real estate law firm.
A Richmond, Virginia native, Adam is proud to call Maryland’s Eastern Shore home. He resides in Easton with his wife and their two children. Adam is active in local community and business leadership initiatives, previously serving on the Board of Directors of Talbot Mentors and The Risk Management Association – Chesapeake Chapter.
Bar Admissions
- Maryland, 2009
Court Admissions
- Court of Appeals of Maryland
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Publications
- “Lands Council v. McNair: Enjoining the Forest Service from Implementing Scientifically Unsound Environmental Practices,” University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law (January 1, 2008).
Recognitions
- What’s Up? Eastern Shore Leading Lawyer (2024-2025)
- Bankruptcy Law; Business Law; Real Estate Law; Tax Law; 2024-2025
- Selected to Rising Stars: 2022
- What’s Up? Eastern Shore Leading Lawyer (2022-2023)
- Business Law; Real Estate Law
- What’s Up? Media: Up & Coming Lawyers (2021)
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