Dennis C. Sbrega has extensive experience in representing lenders a wide variety of in commercial loan transactions, troubled loan workouts, creditors' rights matters, lender liability issues and foreclosures.

His practice also includes documenting and closing acquisitions and dispositions of real property and businesses for individual and corporate clients. He represents lenders, developers, landlords and tenants in the negotiation of office, industrial and retail leases.  He also counsels a number of business clients. He is listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America.

After graduating in 1969 with a degree in English from Springfield College, where he was also an All-American swimmer, he joined the U.S. Army Security Agency. During his Army career, he studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey in California. Following intelligence and security training in San Angelo, Texas, he was stationed behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin, where he monitored, translated and analyzed Russian Army communications in Eastern Europe.

After his Army career ended in 1972, he returned to the United States and in 1977 earned his law degree from Western New England College School of Law. While attending the law school's evening division, he worked full time as a paralegal at the commercial law firm of Kamberg, Berman & Hendel, P.C. in Springfield, Massachusetts. The work gave him early experience in lender representation and working with clients and exposed him to the practical side of the legal profession.

After law school, Dennis became a Partner in Kirsch & Sbrega, P.C. in Massena, New York, a general practice firm with an emphasis in litigation. While there, he co-authored an article for Matthew Bender's Scientific Automobile Accident Reconstruction, titled "Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat Fires."

In 1984, he joined the firm of Hiscock & Barclay, a multi-office firm headquartered in Syracuse, New York, and became a Partner in 1987. He was Managing Director for the firm's branch offices in Portland and Augusta, Maine, for seven years. He joined Preti Flaherty as a Member in 1991.  He served as Managing Partner of the firm from 1993-1994.  He has also served as Chair of the Business Law Practice Group.

A native of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Dennis is a member of the American, Maine State, Cumberland County and New York State bar associations.

Admissions
New York and U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; Maine; U.S. District Court, District of Maine

Education
J.D., Western New England College of School of Law, 1977
B.A., Springfield College, 1969