Leveraged Finance

Across industries and borders, our finance practice provides a diverse set of clients with an unmatched level of skill and service. Our lawyers have represented U.S., U.K., European, Asian, and other international commercial banks, institutional investors, investment banks, investment funds, hedge funds, and corporate and special-purpose borrowers. We advise on many types of financing transactions and work closely with lawyers in our other practice areas to provide seamless and timely advice to our transactional clients.

Clients include:

• Corporate borrowers
• Equity sponsors
• U.S. and international banks
• Investment banks
• Institutional and other non-bank investors
• Asset-backed and finance company lenders
• Debtor-in-possession financiers and borrowers
• Holders of subordinated mezzanine debt

Experienced in large and mid-market, domestic, international, and cross-border transactions, we assist lenders, financial advisers, corporate borrowers, and private equity sponsors in the structuring, negotiating, and documentation of auction sales, leveraged buyouts (including senior, mezzanine, and high-yield debt), restructurings, and other acquisition-related financings. Transactions range from the low middle market to billion-dollar transactions in industries including manufacturing, retail, wholesale, consumer goods, agriculture, energy, real estate, financial technology, healthcare, and transportation.

Areas of experience include:

• Acquisition financing
• Asset-based lending
• Commercial banking loans
• Cross-border, Europe and U.K. based workouts, restructurings, insolvencies, receiverships, administrations, creditors’ voluntary arrangements, and liquidations
• Debtor-in-possession financing
• ESOP lending
• High-yield market transactions
• International trade finance
• Letters of credit
• Leveraged acquisition financing
• Leveraged lease financing
• Natural resources and project financing
• Liquidity lines
• Real estate development and construction financing
• Subordinated debt and mezzanine financing
• Syndicated bank loans
• Tax-exempt financing
• Telecommunications financing
• Growth equity financing
• Working capital financing
• Workouts and restructurings

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Rimon Attorneys With Expertise in Leveraged Finance Include:

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  Fred Chang

  Financial Services, Private Client, International

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  Richard Ernest

  Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights, Real Estate, Corporate, International, Financial Services

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  John J. Hanley

  Financial Services, Transactional Law, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights, Corporate

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  Q. Scott Kaye

  International, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights, Financial Services, Corporate, Technology, FinTech, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain

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  Suzanne L’Hernault

  Financial Services, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights

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  Emma R. Larson

  Corporate, International, Financial Services

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  Ari D. Levine

  Corporate, International, Technology

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  Douglas J. Schneller

  Corporate, Financial Services, International, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights