Goldberg Kohn Ltd

Goldberg Kohn maintains a national and international practice with 90 attorneys providing big firm transactional and litigation skills and experience with the personal touch and attentiveness you would expect from a boutique law firm. The firm offers sophisticated legal services, with an emphasis in Commercial Finance, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights, Corporate Transactions, Intellectual Property, International/Cross Border Finance, Labor and Employment, Litigation and Real Estate.

The firm represents a range of public and private businesses, both domestic and international, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, entrepreneurs, private equity sponsors, banks, finance companies, private credit and other lenders, as well as insurance companies, healthcare providers, local governments and manufacturers, among others.

Goldberg Kohn is a long-term and active member of Meritas, the largest network of independent commercial law firms in the world with member firms in all major U.S. cities and foreign countries. As a member of Meritas, Goldberg Kohn is able to provide clients with high-caliber, local resources across the globe.

Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights

Goldberg Kohn's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights practice is a recognized leader in the middle-market, representing senior secured lenders, junior lenders and large unsecured creditors in corporate

bankruptcies and workouts. The group represents major banks, non-banks, hedge funds, BDCs and other private debt providers in matters throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and in many locations across the globe. The group is dedicated to protecting and enforcing creditors' rights in the course of restructurings, reorganizations, sales, liquidations, receiverships, out-of-court workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors and debt for equity transactions. Goldberg Kohn has considerable experience with high yield, distressed debt, intercreditor and subordinated debt matters. In addition, members of the group are authorities on equity pledges, and serve as sought-after resources for appropriately structuring and enforcing equity pledges.

Commercial Finance

Goldberg Kohn's Commercial Finance practice is comprised of 50 attorneys dedicated to representing banks and other lenders in loan transactions ranging from $15 million to $650 million and involving borrowers across a broad spectrum of industries and sectors. The firm's Commercial Finance practice is nationally recognized by some of the largest and most successful financial services companies in the world, and regularly competes toe-to-toe with the largest, most prestigious law firms in the United States and beyond.

Goldberg Kohn represent banks, commercial finance companies, direct lenders, private credit investors and other lenders in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing a wide range of asset-based and cash-flow loans, unitranche structures, leveraged buyouts and mezzanine financings. The firm is engaged in mergers and acquisition financings, recapitalization financings and other complex financial arrangements requiring institutional debt; often "trouble spots" deal structures and documentation, particularly in co-lend arrangements; and leads multi-bank/multi-borrower facilities. Additionally, the firm's lawyers have extensive experience in bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, often representing agent banks, and are equally adept at handling split-lien and multi-lien structures.

Goldberg Kohn is a pioneer in cross-border lending - foreseeing the globalization of middle-market lending in the mid-1980s - and today has one of the most significant and active international lending practices based in the United States. Throughout the past 20 years, the firm has represented many clients ininternational lendingtransactions in Europe, Asia, South America and Central America, which have included taking foreign collateral or guaranties to finance cross-border acquisitions involving funding in multiple currencies.

Corporate Law & Transactions

Goldberg Kohn's Corporate Group represents start-ups,private equityinvestors, public and private companies, family offices, partnerships, entrepreneurs, individuals and institutional investors in complex business transactions in addition to providing general corporate advice and day-to-day counseling, often serving clients as general or principal outside counsel. The Corporate Group advises clients inmergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, private financings, and debt and equity restructurings. The team also assists inentity formation and organization; handles compliance issues and governance; reviews, negotiates and drafts a range of corporate contracts and agreements; and advises on executive compensation and general employment contracting. In addition, the corporate group represents banks and private equity investors in structuring and negotiating their equity investments in companies they are financing.

Goldberg Kohn'sPortfolio Company Servicesoffering delivers cost-effective, sophisticated legal services, including advising onadd-on acquisitions and providing ongoing counsel on general corporate and governance matters, equity financings, asset or divisional dispositions, and negotiation of commercial contracts.

In addition, Goldberg Kohnhas extensive experience providing tax advice to clients in corporate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, structured finance transactions - including securitizations, cross-border financing and leveraged leases - and tax controversy matters. In addition, the firm advises lenders and debtors with respect to the tax issues arising from debt workouts, modifications, debt-equity swaps, foreclosure and cancellation of debt tax reporting responsibilities, trust fund tax penalties, and federal tax liens. Goldberg Kohn also represents both individuals and businesses with respect to compensation tax issues.

Litigation

Goldberg Kohn's nationally recognized litigators represent clients in trial and appellate courts at the federal and state level, before administrative tribunals, and in arbitrations, mediations and other dispute resolution proceedings. The firm has substantial experience representing clients in banking and finance litigation, class action defense, commercial disputes, employment, false advertising, government investigations, health care litigation, intellectual property, policyholders' insurance coverage matters, product liability and toxic torts, professional malpractice defense, real estate litigation and shareholder disputes.

Goldberg Kohn has extensive experience in defending class actions brought under both state and federal laws involving securities and employment laws, consumer protection and unfair trade practices, as well as class claims brought under RICO, the FDCPA, RESPA and the Credit Repair Organizations Act, to name a few. In addition, the firm represents some of the country's leading lenders, servicers and others in the residential mortgage industry in class claims alleging deceptive practices and other wrongs. Goldberg Kohn represents clients in the compliance with, and defense against, claims brought under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), Truth In Lending Act (TILA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA). Goldberg Kohn's litigators also handle trademark, copyright, trade secrets and patent rights matters.

Real Estate Financing, Acquisition, Disposition and Leasing

Goldberg Kohn’s highly regarded Real Estate practice represents clients in every aspect of commercial property transactions across the United States, includingacquisitions, dispositions,financings, ground-up construction,sale and leasebacks, space leasing, ground leasing, renewable energy generation and distribution,workouts and bankruptcies, and environmental issues. The firm has extensive experience representing institutional lenders in floating and fixed rate balance sheet and CMBS lending, as well as negotiating and closing syndicated loans, including pari passu and tranched loan syndications,intercreditor agreements and agreements among lenders.

Goldberg Kohn's real estate lawyers have considerable experience with franchise and boutique hospitality properties, single and multi-tenant office, retail, multi-family apartment, senior housing and industrial properties, among others. The Real Estate group represents owners, developers, lenders, investors and tenants in connection with real estate projects across the country. In addition, Goldberg Kohn advises owners of and investors in commercial real estate on entity structuring, capital formation, development, leasing, debt financing, purchase and sale, and reorganization.