Practice Areas & Industries: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

For decades, Baker Donelson has represented both lenders and borrowers in significant and varied commercial transactions. This experience is critical in the complex financing that businesses routinely address as part of their total finance and strategic planning.

Our experience in financing and secured transactions includes the structuring, negotiation and documentation of acquisition loans, leveraged buyouts and mezzanine financings, term and revolving credit facilities, working capital loans, mortgage warehousing loans, floor-planning loans, assisting clients with local tax incentive programs, senior and subordinated debt instruments, and all types of project finance. Moreover, our securitization group can assist with transactions involving asset-backed securities as well as sophisticated real estate financing transactions.

Baker Donelson has extensive experience in negotiating intercreditor arrangements, subordination agreements, letter of credit issues, bond financings, factoring and security documents, and in the creation and perfection of liens and security interests in all manner of collateral. The Firm routinely serves as local counsel in multi-state financing transactions.

Representative Matters

• Borrower's counsel in refinancing debt secured by 99 facilities in 21 states, with a combination of traditional and securitized loans.
• Borrower's counsel to a Triple A baseball team in the complex financing of its ballpark.
• Issuer's counsel in a number of synthetic lease transactions.
• Regular representation of lenders and borrowers in complex commercial loan transactions, involving a variety of industries - manufacturing, health care, real estate - and collateral types.
• Issuer's counsel for a publicly traded national bank holding company in connection with a $100 million subordinated debt offering, as well as counsel to its national bank subsidiary in a $250 million subordinated debt offering.
• Borrowers', underwriters', trustees' and bond counsel in an extensive number of bond financings. Experience in this area includes private activity bond financing of manufacturing and multifamily housing facilities, as well as general obligation bonds and financing for utilities. Members of our Firm are listed in The Bond Buyer's Marketplace (the Red Book).