Our structured finance practice group handles complex structured financing solutions for borrowers, lenders and other financial institutions with financing transactions secured by real estate and other assets in the acquisition, refinancing, and repositioning of properties. We negotiate, structure, document, and close all types of asset-based, cash flow, and other secured loan transactions in transactions valued up to $100 million.

We also represent investment banks, private banking and trust operations, savings and loans, and other institutional lenders in banking and financing transactions and activities in a cost effective and expeditious manner while remaining sensitive to the underlying credit relationships they have put in place.

Our experience includes:

• Structuring loans and drafting loan commitments, loan agreements and other supporting collateral documentation
• Commercial loan workouts
  
• Lender liability counseling
• Analyzing the impact of environmental laws on secured loans and workouts
• Representing commercial lenders in connection with asset-based financing, leveraged buyout transactions, and the issuance and securing of letters of credit
• Representing both borrowers and lenders in tax-exempt financing transactions
• Representing various financial institutions in a wide range of creditors' rights matters, including enforcement of security interests, collateral sale transactions, collection actions, loan default litigation, and bankruptcy litigation
  
• Developing standardized loan documentation and procedures in order to reduce the costs and increase the speed of most loan transactions
  

Contact:
Lawrence G. Staat
Steven C. Filipowski