Banking & Finance

Calfee’s Banking & Finance team represents clients in all aspects of domestic and international transactions, financings, and debt structures. The firm’s commercial attorneys counsel financial institutions and borrowers in analyzing, structuring, documenting, and negotiating all aspects of finance in private, public, syndicated, international, and governmental settings.

Representative experience includes (but is not limited to):

• ​Financing (revolving, term, asset-based, multicurrency and international, ESOP financings, multi-lender syndications and participations, debt offerings, note purchase agreements)
• Commercial Finance (asset-backed structured finance securitizations, SBIC equity and debt placements, mezzanine financings, derivatives transactions, interest rate protection, and letters of credits and guarantees)
• Domestic and International Business (sales, distribution, and agency, commercial aspects of joint ventures, computer developments and servicing, and electronic data interchange)
• Workouts & Restructurings (secured party sales, troubled debt purchases, facility restructurings, standstill and forbearance arrangements, debtor-in-possession financings, inter-creditor, and subordination arrangements)
• Specialized Banking Services (lender liability audits, special opinion counsel, regulatory compliance, FIRREA, thrift, and bank holding companies)
• Specialized Business Transactions (sale-leasebacks, project financings, asset acquisitions, bankruptcy acquisitions)