We advise our clients in a number of corporate matters and transactional work. Our attorneys have decades of experience in a wide breadth of areas including, but not limited to:
- drafting, review and oversight of corporate formations and ongoing housekeeping issues (e.g., charters, bylaws, internal compliance manuals, “best practices” and document retention policies, board and stockholder resolutions);
- drafting, review and negotiation of purchase agreements (including bulk purchase and forward flow agreements) and third party servicing agreements, relating to charged-off account receivables for financial products, including defaulted credit card accounts;
- in-house compliance issues (e.g., public/private credit monitoring services and firewall creation);
- advise on SEC filings and compliance issues (e.g., including forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 3, 4, 5, 13F and Schedules 13D and 13G);
- private fund formation (e.g., including requisite filings);
- agency and lender representation in bilateral and syndicated secured and unsecured lending transactions with respect to a wide variety of real-estate and financial assets including commercial and residential mortgage assets, real-estate-owned properties, franchise loans, mezzanine loans, student loans, and servicing rights and receivables;
- represented lenders in the documentation of workouts and default and foreclosure of distressed lending facilities including default notices, waivers, standstill agreements, intercreditor agreements and DIP facilities;
- underwriter representation in structured finance products;
- advising on mortgage banking secondary market transactions, including whole loan and servicing rights purchase and sale transactions with respect to a wide variety of mortgage loan types as well as structuring and negotiating warehouse lines and repurchase agreements for mortgage loans;
- UCC and security interest filing and analysis and negotiation of security and control agreements, including providing related opinions;
- advising on various securities law issues (e.g., including providing legal opinions and “big boy/sophisticated party” transaction side letters);
- drafting and negotiation of non-disclosure agreements and confidentiality agreements;
- mergers and acquisitions and asset purchases and divestitures, including negotiation and drafting of purchase and merger agreements and related documents and due diligence management; and
- representation of lenders in connection with corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations, out-of-court debt restructurings and secured and unsecured credit facilities.