May 04, 2021

Get a Better View From the Mezzanine

Learn how a mezzanine tranche of debt—between senior and equity—can enhance a borrower’s capital structure, particularly in real estate financing. This practice note provides an overview of the typical terms, primary documentation, and key issues...
April 27, 2021

Uncommon Collateral Becomes Presentable

Get your colleagues and clients up to speed on perfecting challenging asset types. This practice note can be used to prepare a presentation explaining how to perfect several specific forms of uncommon collateral, both under and outside the Uniform Commercial Code...
April 20, 2021

Coffee (and Guidance) Is for Closers

Get the guidance, templates, and clauses you need for closing the deal. This resource kit provides an overview of the closing and post-closing process, addressing the individual documents and deliverables due at closing, payoff and funding mechanics, preparing...
April 13, 2021

Keep Pushing My Loan Over the Borderline

Get all the guidance, templates, and clauses you need for cross-border loan financings. This resource kit provides an overview of these international deals encompassing a variety of structures, including loans to non-U.S. borrowers and guarantees or security interests...
April 06, 2021

How to Avoid a Multi-Million Dollar Mistake

Avoid the kind of mistake that potentially cost Citibank millions of dollars. These erroneous payment clauses for a credit agreement are used in a syndicated loan transaction to require lenders to return errant payments made by an administrative agent. READ NOW...
March 29, 2021

Lenders Beware….Worth the Risk? Leveraged Dividend Recapitalizations

Learn how to structure leveraged dividend recapitalizations, in which a company incurs debt and uses those proceeds to pay a dividend to its shareholders or to repurchase its outstanding shares. This is a potentially risky transaction for the lender, the sponsor...
March 23, 2021

Project Finance Transactions Guide

Add this summary guide to your global project finance toolbox. It lays out several fundamental legal and business issues for attorneys, advisors, and participants to address in the context of a project finance transaction. This practice note lays out several fundamental...
March 17, 2021

Acquisition Financing Fundamentals

Get an overview of the techniques for acquiring and financing business acquisitions and some of the legal, business, tax, and regulatory issues related to acquisition financing. This practice note introduces the general concept of business acquisitions, along with...
March 09, 2021

Pressing Charges: Fees in Loan Transactions and Fee Letter Considerations

Learn about the fees that are generally incurred in connection with a loan financing. This practice note also provides practice tips on formulating the fee letter that documents these and related provisions, including market flex, securities demand, and alternative...
March 02, 2021

We Present … LIBOR Transition!

Prepare a presentation explaining the pending cessation of LIBOR, its likely replacement in Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), and how to document these changes. This form presentation sets forth slides you can use internally and with others with applicable...
February 24, 2021

Guaranty Resource Kit

Peruse our guaranty-related content in this resource kit. It provides an overview of guaranties, addressing formation, types, and enforceability issues. READ NOW » Related Content Enforceability and Types of Guaranties Help ensure your guaranty agreements...
February 17, 2021

Keep This Between Us: Confidentiality in Lending

Learn how to use confidentiality agreements in financing transactions. Non-disclosure agreements are entered into between parties to a potential transaction to ensure that information delivered during negotiations is kept confidential and is used by the recipient...
February 10, 2021

Prenups for Lenders: Intercreditor Basics

Address creditor squabbles before they arise. This practice note gives an overview of the intercreditor agreement, including what it hopes to accomplish and its underlying provisions. The content below provides forms and a deeper dive into the topic. READ NOW...
February 03, 2021

How to Leverage Bitcoin Into a Secured Financing

Take advantage of the increased value of your cryptocurrency by using those assets to secure a bank loan. The law and financial industry have adapted to allow any conceivable asset of the borrower to be pledged to lenders in this way. Digital assets are no exception...
January 27, 2021

Help Is Here: New PPP Loans Are Available

Learn the rules and conditions of the new tranches of Paycheck Protection loans. The SBA has recently set start dates and procedures, and issued two new interim final rules—one for first draw loans and one for second draw loans. This article discusses the...