Our leveraged finance lawyers advise on all areas of finance, including acquisition finance, syndicated lending, second lien and subordinated lending, debt capital markets, cross-border finance and complex leasing and asset-based and leveraged cash flow financings. Financial sponsors, money center lenders and investment banks regularly retain us to handle their most complex private and public debt financings and to advise them on complex inter-lender negotiating in connection with multi-tiered financing. We advise senior as well as subordinated lenders in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings and change-of-control financings.
Our structured finance lawyers negotiate and structure the purchase of mortgage-backed derivative securities through trust and partnership structures, including the acquisition of subordinated derivative mortgage-backed securities where the underlying asset is tax-exempt bonds. We also represent funds outsourcing debt portfolios. We regularly advise traders on the New York Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and other leading markets on the range of legal and documentation issues surrounding credit derivatives, OTC options, swaps and hedges. We also assist with International Swap Dealer Association (ISDA) documentation across derivative products and advise fund clients on derivatives portfolio analysis and audits.
Our finance expertise includes:
- Project financing for power plants, pipelines, manufacturing facilities and energy-based infrastructure projects
- Revolving credit and term loans, including "tranche A" and "tranche B" facilities
- Asset-backed securitizations
- Leveraged acquisition financings
- Structured commodity trading and hedging facilities
- Leveraged lease and synthetic lease financings
- High yield debt issues
- Convertible and subordinated debt issues
- Real estate financings
- Mutual fund liquidity facilities
- Commercial paper facilities
- Interest rate and currency swaps
- Special purpose vehicles and bankruptcy remote financing structures
- Restructurings, workouts and bankruptcy financings, including DIP possession financings
- Purchases and sales of loans and participation interests in loans