Jones Walker LLP

In the commercial lending and finance arena, Jones Walker represents financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, investors, borrowers, and creditors in a variety of matters, including financing transactions, regulatory matters, and general commercial matters. Our clients benefit from the diverse experience of our commercial lending attorneys. We handle a broad range of financing structures, including:

• Asset securitizations
• Asset-based loans
• Entertainment industry loans
• Equipment and transportation equipment, including aircraft, marine vessel, rolling stock, containers and trailer financings and leases
• International and cross-border transactions, including project finance
• Letters of credit
• Mixed debt and equity financings
• Multi-lender credit syndications
• Oil and gas loan financing
• Real estate and construction loans
• Sale and leaseback transactions
• Syndication financings
• Synthetic lease financing
• Tax credit financing
• Timber financing
• United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) financing

Jones Walker's commercial lending attorneys also have extensive experience counseling clients on various aspects of debtor-creditor relations, such as lender liability disputes, workouts, and surety matters.

Diversity Mission Statement

Jones Walker LLP strives to encourage, foster and increase diversity across the firm. To this end, the Diversity Committee has adopted the goal of fostering a work environment that welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences and ensures that an individual’s professional growth, experience or advancement is not limited because of gender, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or other similar factor.

Purposes of the Diversity Committee

• To increase awareness of the importance of diversity within the firm and of the means by which diversity enriches the firm;
• To encourage all lawyers and staff members to develop mutual respect and appreciation for different perspectives and backgrounds; and
• To develop and implement strategies to assist the firm in recruiting, retaining and advancing staff and lawyers from diverse backgrounds.
• Jones Walker values all employees who contribute positively to the firm’s practice, the firm’s environment, and the greater community we serve.

In 2009, Jones Walker was named to MultiCultural Law Magazine’s list of "Top 100 Law Firms for Women," part of a series of listings of the top 100 law firms for diversity. The listings are compiled based on diversity statistics derived from annual surveys that the publication sends to law firms with more than 100 attorneys.