Practice Areas & Industries: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Today's global financial markets are changing rapidly, fueled by an increasing reliance on technology and a convergence of financial institutions and the products and services that they offer. With approximately 100 of our attorneys devoting all or a substantial part of their time to our financial services clients, Sutherland conducts a comprehensive nationally recognized leveraged capital and financial services practice offering highly developed experience across this complex financial marketplace. This, coupled with the Firm's philosophy of handling cases with a small number of lawyers and emphasizing responsiveness and accessibility, enables the Firm to provide creative and effective legal solutions to our financial services clients.

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Experience Covering The Full Spectrum of Leveraged Capital Financing

Our leveraged capital practice is exceptionally broad and includes representing borrowers, issuers and underwriters in the following areas:

• Cash Flow Lending
• Asset Based Lending
• Highly Leveraged Financings, including leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalizations
• Investment Grade Financings
• Eurobonds and other International Offerings
• High Yield Debt
• Energy and Project Finance
• Derivative Products
• Workouts, Restructurings and Debtor-in-Possession Financings
• Real Estate Finance
• Mezzanine Finance
• Hybrid Debt / Equity Financing
• Cross-Border Finance
• Structured Finance and securitization of real estate mortgages, corporate bonds, commercial loans and other financial assets
• Synthetic and leveraged leasing
• Telecommunications Finance
  

Clients:
Allied Capital Corporation, American Express Financial Advisors, Bank of America, Business Loan Express, CIBC Oppenheimer Corporation, Citigroup Inc., CoBank, ACB, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Ford Motor Credit Company, GE Capital Corporation, GMAC Financial Services, Goldman, Sachs & Co., ING Financial, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Mellon Bank, Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Royal Bank of Canada/Centura Bank, SunTrust Bank, SunTrust Capital Markets, TIAA-CREF, Union Bank of Switzerland, Wachovia Bank, N.A.