Finance and Banking Capabilities
Finance (both bilateral and syndicated)
- Acquisition, development, and construction mortgage lending (multifamily, hospitality and resort, office, retail, mixed-use, industrial warehouse, mini-storage, assisted living, medical office, hospital and other health care, subdivision and condominium development, and builders’ lines of credit, including fee, ground leased, condominiumized, cooperative, and TIC properties)
- Aircraft finance
- Alternative energy (solar and wind projects) financing
- Asset based lending
- Automobile dealer floor plan lines of credit
- Corporate acquisition financing
- Cross-border and multi-jurisdictional international financing transactions, including those governed by New York law
- Debt offerings and issuance
- Debtor in possession financing
- Dividend recapitalization financing
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Franchise financing
- Fund finance including net asset value lines of credit, subscription lines of credit and hybrid structures
- Governmental program financing, including SBA 7(a), SBA 504, PPP, and Main Street Lending Program
- HMO and insurance company financing
- Insurance premium financing
- Intercreditor agreements
- ISDA swap documentation
- Letters of credit
- Leveraged and structured finance
- Mezzanine financing
- Mortgage warehouse lending
- Municipal bond and other public financing, including IDBs and IRBs
- Real estate financing
- Shared appreciation and profit participation mortgages
- Ships mortgage financing
- Sports facilities and professional sports teams financing
- Subordinated debt financing
- Term loan mortgage lending (multifamily, hospitality and resort, office, retail, mixed-use, industrial warehouse, mini-storage, and assisted living, medical office, hospital and other health care, including fee, ground leased, condominiumized, cooperative, and TIC properties)
Banking
- 34 Act compliance for SEC-registered and exchange-listed companies
- Critical vendor contract review and negotiation
- Defense of shareholder class actions in banking mergers
- Enforcement action and regulatory examination representation
- Executive eompensation
- “Expansion of Activities” representation for insured depository institutions and affiliated entities
- Merger & acquisition representation, including acting as counsel with respect to:
- Guidance on transaction structure
- Definitive agreement negotiation
- Public and private capital formation and offerings, including both debt and equity
- Regulatory compliance and oversight counsel, with expertise in dealing with:
- The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Various State Banking Authorities
- Representation of organizers with respect to the chartering and formation of commercial banks, registered bank holding companies, and non-depository trust companies
- Strategic planning representation
- Trust and fiduciary compliance