Practice Areas: Commercial Lending

McGuireWoods’ commercial lending group represents arrangers, purchasers, lenders and other providers of a broad variety of debt instruments and other credit products, including:

• senior loan facilities
  • leveraged/cash flow
  • asset-based
  • investment grade
• second lien loan facilities
• mezzanine loan facilities
• bridge loan facilities

In addition we have extensive experience representing equity sponsors, issuers and borrowers in such transactions.

We are familiar with financing requirements and practice across a variety of industries, transaction objectives and issuer types. Experience with:

• healthcare, telecommunications, media, energy, retail, financial services, technology and general industries;
• acquisition financings, recapitalizations, restructurings, exchange offers, workouts, and financing of general working capital requirements; and
• investment grade, leveraged and cross-over transactions.

We are familiar with market practices for syndicating loan facilities in the bank and institutional lender markets for mid-cap and large cap companies. We are also experienced in arranging credits for early stage companies and working with individual bank and other specialty lenders and in clubbed transactions.

Our commercial lending group works closely with McGuireWoods’ project finance, structured finance, real estate development and finance, restructuring & insolvency, business tax and labor & employment groups.

Our commercial lending teams are located throughout the country in our Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, Richmond, New York and Tysons Corner and are familiar with finance practices in all regions of the United States. Our commercial lending teams regularly work on cross border transactions and have established relationships with experienced commercial finance practices throughout the world. Our transactions in Europe and Asia are supported through local expertise in our Brussels office.