Find Lawyers in Columbia, South Carolina for Commercial Finance Law
Practice Area Overview
Representative clients may include state, regional, and national banks; asset-based lenders; leasing companies; commercial finance companies; syndicated lenders; mezzanine lenders; investment funds; finance companies; institutional lenders; sellers; buyers; suppliers; manufacturers; distributors; retailers; shareholders; and competing creditors.
Areas of focus for commercial finance attorneys may include:
- Equipment, inventory, and receivables financing
- Real estate secured loans
- Lease financing
- Structured and leveraged financing
- Subordinated and mezzanine debt
- Syndicated credits
- Workouts and debt restructuring
- Lien creation and perfection
- Subordination agreements
- Equity participations
- Senior secured credit financing
- Subordinated debt and other mezzanine financing
- Loan sales and participation
- Swaps and other derivative products
- Letters of credit and other credit and liquidity support devices
- Enforcement and collection actions
- Security agreements
- Project financing
- Acquisition and development loans
- Debtor-in-possession financing
- Construction loans
- Venture capital
- Mezzanine financing/bridge loans
- Bond financing
- Bridge loans
- Uniform Commercial Code (Article 9)
Sharon Bramlett represents financial services clients in numerous capacities. A large part of her practice focuses on consumer law, assisting both in-state and out-of-state lenders with licensure and compliance under the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code. She also serves as the South Carolina editor for Houselaw, a national publication dealing with the consumer finance industry. Sharon has been appointed by three Governors to serve on the Council of Advisors on Consumer Credit, a counci...
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