Approach
When companies enter into relationships with lenders and other business partners, the terms of those agreements are critical and often complex. The Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Commercial Finance Practice Group provides guidance that produces mutually beneficial relationships across the entire spectrum of commercial relationships.
Attorneys
We are a multi-disciplinary team with more than 20 attorneys which prides itself on achieving client goals on time and within budget.
Clients
Our clients include companies of all sizes in many industries and the institutions that finance their operations and growth, such as banks, finance companies and insurance companies. We also serve bond issuers and underwriters.
Practice
We represent nationally and locally prominent commercial banks, finance companies, insurance companies and other lenders, as well as borrowers in connection with all aspects of secured and unsecured financing arrangements of all sizes. Those arrangements include:
- Revolving and term loans
- Secured transactions (including asset based lending, chattel paper financing, floor plan financing and aircraft and vessel financing)
- Commercial mortgage loans
- ESOP loans
- Intercreditor agreements and loan syndications and participations
- Seller-financed transactions
- Leveraged buy-outs
- Venture capital financing
- Letters of credit and reimbursement agreements
- Foreign exchange transactions
- Commercial leasing and equipment financing
- Leveraged leases
- Agriculture finance
- Purchase of individual loans and loan portfolios
- Interest rate swaps and other derivative transactions
- Sales of accounts and other off-balance sheet financing
Our focus on strategic issues and our familiarity with various industries allows us to assist our clients in negotiating terms that protect them throughout the lending relationship.