Finance

Our Finance Group understands the complex needs of financial institutions and their customers. We work with banks and their special finance and merchant banking affiliates, as well as with insurance companies, venture and opportunity funds, financial subsidiaries of major industrial corporations and other financial intermediaries. We also regularly represent borrowers in a variety of highly sophisticated secured and unsecured financing transactions. We have also worked extensively with clients in industry groups such as health care, retail, broadcast and cable television, cellular telephone and radio, real estate development, energy, sovereign tribal nations, employee benefit plans, electric, gas and water utilities, municipal finance and financial services. We are familiar with the particular financing needs of these industries as well as with specialized collateral such as securities, real estate, vessels and aircraft. Our lawyers have extensive experience acting for institutional clients in the following types of transactions:

• Revolving credit, line of credit, term loan and multirate, multicurrency option syndicated credit facilities

• Secured and unsecured general corporate loans and structured asset-based financings and project finance

• Private placement of debt, equity and convertible securities

• Leveraged acquisition financings and bridge loans

• Restructurings and workouts

• Multitiered subordinated debt financings

Lawyers in the Finance Group are able to apply a broad base of experience in corporate finance and institutional lending to each transaction. Moreover, the group is able to draw on the substantive knowledge of other lawyers in the firm to address the needs of complex financings, such as acquisition financings, or financings involving environmental, ERISA, and/or real estate issues. Our Finance Group works closely with our business workouts, bankruptcy and creditors' rights practitioners in advising our clients regarding enforcement mechanisms, collateral realization, and structuring transactions to minimize insolvency risks.

Our lawyers acting for both lender and principal are available to advise on questions involving:

• Federal and state taxation

• Employee benefits, ESOPs and ERISA

• Environmental law

• Bankruptcy law

• Federal and state securities laws

• Health care

• Trade finance

• Real estate

• Interest rate swaps, caps and collars and currency swaps

The Finance Group can quickly mobilize any of the firm's lawyers with the substantive qualifications and experience to handle complex matters under the tightest of deadlines.

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5.08.13

John Lynch and Keith Stover Quoted in Connecticut Law Tribune