Practice Areas & Industries: Hunton & Williams LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our clients include domestic and international commercial banks and bank holding companies, underwriters, merchant banks, thrifts, insurance companies, institutional investors, commercial finance companies, finance subsidiaries of major national and multinational companies, leasing companies and factors, as well as borrowers, issuers and private equity groups.

Services Available

Our lawyers are experienced in handling syndicated and single-lender credits involving:

• working capital and fixed asset financings
• leveraged acquisition, going private and recapitalization financings
• tender offer financings
• mezzanine financings
• private placements
• Rule 144A offerings
• asset-based lending
• equipment leasing
• workouts and debt restructurings
• debtor-in-possession and plan confirmation exit financings
• ESOP loans
• receivables purchases and other asset securitization transactions
• letter of credit facilities, letter of credit backed and other credit enhanced financings
• trade finance
• real estate and project financings
• leveraged lease transactions
• synthetic lease financings
• taxable and tax-exempt bond financings
• cross-border financings
• factoring
• interest rate swaps, caps and collars
• equity kickers, warrants, shadow warrants, stock appreciation rights and contingent interests

Our lawyers are experienced in representing agents, participants and borrowers in secured and unsecured syndicated credit facilities, with an emphasis on leveraged syndicated financings.

Our lawyers have substantial experience in representing participants, including lenders, investors and borrowers, in domestic and international leveraged buyout, going private, leveraged recapitalization and other leveraged acquisition and change of control transactions. These credits present diverse structures, and frequently include senior secured debt, mezzanine debt, bridge loans, underwritten Rule 144A debt offerings, private placements and structured finance components. Our lawyers are experienced in handling the intercreditor, collateral agency, collateral trust, debt subordination, securitization, multistate and cross-border and equity participation elements often present in these transactions.

Our lawyers are experienced in a broad range of commercial finance products and transactions, including asset-based lending, factoring and other receivables, inventory and equipment financing products.

Our finance lawyers work closely with our bankruptcy and creditors' rights lawyers in working out and restructuring troubled credits on a local, regional and national scale. Our experience includes debtor-in-possession financing, debt for equity swaps, sales of troubled companies in and outside of bankruptcy and post confirmation financings.

To meet the demands of each transaction, our finance lawyers work in transactional teams with our lawyers in the corporate reorganization, bankruptcy, tax, ERISA, environmental, real estate, litigation, intellectual property, corporate and securities practices.

Clients:
Pacor Mortgage Corp, NCS Mortgage Lending Co., American General Finance, Inc, Burger King Corp, Marine Midland Bank, Western Massachusetts Life Care Corporation