In a competitive lending landscape, we help financial institutions provide the sophisticated options borrowers want, while still understanding the risks for specific transactions.
Today’s borrowers demand complex business financing solutions; to deliver, lenders call on our Commercial Finance team. The team was recognized as “very insightful and completely trusted” in the 2019 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. We provide diverse transactional experience plus deep knowledge of how changing regulations, cross-border demand for credit facilities and technology impact loan transactions. While most of our clients are lenders, we also work with borrowers, providing valuable insights from “the other side of the table.”
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Our approach includes:
- Experience with a full array of transactions, such as asset-based lending, syndicated lending (agent and lender representation), cash flow lending, healthcare finance and trade finance
- Proficiency in structures involving multiple layers of institutional debt, complex intercreditor arrangements and payments in multiple currencies
- Particular knowledge of healthcare and other industry-specific financing issues
- Ability to negotiate and analyze the market for single-lender deals to highly syndicated, multi-billion-dollar facilities
- Strength in complementary disciplines including bankruptcy, tax, real estate, corporate and healthcare
- Cross-border capabilities through our Meritas® and foreign counsel networks
- Bench depth at every level
Maintaining long-term relationships with you, and helping you do the same with your borrowers, is a top priority for us. We strive to find creative legal solutions - to novel and unusual collateral and structural issues. Working diligently and cooperatively to close each deal, we keep you informed of any issue that may increase the risks of the transaction. Our clients include regional, national and international banks and other commercial lending entities, including non-bank lenders, many of whom have trusted us for decades.
To provide big-picture thinking and attention to detail, our interdisciplinary team includes both lawyers who work exclusively on commercial finance matters and those who focus on bankruptcy, workouts and restructurings, real estate, tax and healthcare law. We can identify and address potential insolvency issues at the front and back end of every transaction.
Experience includes:
- Acquisition financing
- Aircraft finance
- Asset-based lending
- Cash flow lending
- Cross-border lending
- DIP and exit financing
- Equipment leasing
- Factoring
- Healthcare finance
- Lender finance
- Real Estate and construction loans
- Retail finance
- Syndicated lending
- Trade finance