Robinson Bradshaw’s team of banking and finance professionals lead one of the top lending practices in North Carolina as evidenced by our Tier 1 ranking by Chambers USA 2010. As Charlotte has grown into a nationally recognized financial center, we have grown with it, providing to our clients, as sources noted to Chambers USA, a “great firm with great attorneys who are tough without being obstructive and for whom client interests are the top priority.”
Our banking and finance clients include national banks, state-chartered banks, funds, specialty finance companies and public and private corporations. The breadth of our practice encompasses everything from middle-market asset-based and cash-flow financings to large, multi-billion dollar syndicated financings. With our deep and varied experience representing both lenders and borrowers, our “client-centric” deal teams have extensive experience in transactions up and down the capital structure, including:
- Investment grade bank and non-investment grade credit facilities, having advised arranger/lenders in syndicated lending transactions worth over $23 billion since 2006
- Second lien, unitranche and subordinated debt credit facilities
- Asset-based working capital facilities
- Bridge financings
- Multi-currency cross-border financings
- Intercreditor agreements
- Mezzanine financings
- Note purchase agreements
- Loan workouts and debt restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings
With this breadth of practice extending across markets and capital structures, we have developed a sophisticated understanding of banking and capital markets transactions and can provide our clients with focused and efficient deal teams tailored to their needs. Attorneys with significant relevant experience will closely manage all transactions throughout the structuring, due diligence and documentation phase of a deal. Moreover, our one-firm philosophy ensures that our lending clients will benefit from our M&A, tax, ERISA and bankruptcy professionals as circumstances dictate during the course of any lending transaction.