Syndicated and Leveraged Finance
Sidley's finance lawyers operate across all major industries and around the world. We represent domestic and international financial institutions, investment funds and other businesses involved in the following, as lender or as borrower:
- Leveraged acquisition and recapitalization financings
- Cross-border financings
- Bridge financings
- Working capital financings and refinancings
- Letter of credit facilities
- Warehouse facilities
- Debtor-in-possession and plan confirmation financings
- Workouts and restructurings
- ESOP loans
- Regulated industry financings
- Import-export financing transactions
- Aircraft and other equipment financings
- Project financings
Industries where we have extensive experience include the following:
- Technology, media and telecommunications
- Consumer products
- Financial services
- Investment funds, including hedge funds
- Transportation, including aviation, rail and automotive
- Industrial manufacturing
- Energy, including oil and gas
- Environmental services
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Healthcare and pharmaceutical
- Agricultural and dairy
- Retail
- Sovereign debt
Our group draws on the great breadth of our firm. One of our strengths is that we work closely with our other practice areas of Bankruptcy/Corporate Reorganization, Financial Institutions Regulation, M&A and Private Equity, Securitization, Derivatives, Capital Markets and Securities, Insurance, Investment Funds, Environmental, Litigation, Tax, Real Estate, Energy, Intellectual Property, Products Liability and Employee Benefits.
We acted for many years as general counsel to the Commercial Finance Association, the international trade association for lending institutions engaged in commercial secured lending and factoring. In addition, lawyers in the group are members of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, the American College of Bankruptcy and the National Bankruptcy Conference.
