Banking & Finance

Our Services

We regularly act as counsel to major U.S. and international banks; insurance companies and other financial institutions; corporate borrowers; and government agencies.  We represent such clients in compliance matters and other matters before state and federal regulatory and legislative bodies.  Our transactional lawyers work closely with lawyers in our other practices who have extensive regulatory experience.

We regularly represent parties in a broad range of lending matters, including public finance, middle-market finance, asset-based loans and commercial and trade finance.

Our practice encompasses primarily the following areas:

• Secured and unsecured revolving, term and other credit facilities
• Regulatory counseling
• Real estate finance
• Mezzanine and subordinated debt financing
• Securitization
• Mergers and acquisitions involving financial institutions
• Workout and debtor-in-possession financing
• Project and infrastructure finance

We have acted as lead counsel in billions of dollars of financing in all 50 states and around the world, and we regularly represent banks providing financing to companies in a wide variety of industries.  We have extensive experience in health care, retail, real estate, manufacturing, communications, professional sports and a number of service industries.

As a result of this experience, we are infinitely familiar with “market” practices and provisions and can offer practical advice and solutions, ranging from large financing involving syndicates of many lenders to single lender middle-market financing transactions.

Our Value

We provide high-quality, cost-effective representation to clients in major markets around the world.  Drawing upon the array of skills within the firm, we offer clients multi-office, multidisciplinary attorneys who possess the expertise to deal with the myriad of transaction issues.  Examples of our capabilities include:

• Our lawyers know the business, economic and regulatory environments of the Americas, Europe and Asia.
• We have long-standing relationships with attorneys, accounting firms and consultants around the world, enabling us to offer clients global execution capabilities and strategies
• We have prepared standard form loan documentation for asset-based lending groups of major banking institutions and highly specialized finance companies.
• Our work encompasses financial services and corporate transactions, as well as bankruptcy, litigation, arbitration, environmental, labor and employment, intellectual property, international trade, real estate, insurance, tax and workout matters.