Banking & Financial Services

Stradling has represented lenders and borrowers in banking, finance, and related commercial transactions for more than 30 years.

Our attorneys know not only the business of finance, but also the finance business.

We regularly advise banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and other institutional lenders and borrowers on the full range of secured and unsecured financings. We have structured:

• Asset-based lending facilities
• Acquisition facilities
• Letter of credit and acceptance facilities
• Single- and multiple-borrower facilities
• Syndicated facilities
• Single- and multiple-facility transactions
• Domestic and cross-border loans
• Multi-currency loans

Our work includes senior, secured, unsecured, mezzanine, and subordinated facilities. We negotiate and document loans to borrowers across virtually all sectors, from technology to retail to real estate.

We also have substantial experience with a variety of collateral, from intellectual property rights to real estate to physical assets like manufacturing inventory, computers, and equipment.

But we also assist banks and financial entities as businesses, with advice on:

• Regulatory compliance
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Tax issues
• Governance
• Employment
• Leases and real estate
• Risk and liability management (including directors and officers liability)
• Intellectual property
• Data security and privacy issues
• Formations, conversions, and reorganizations