Find Lawyers in Seattle, Washington 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)
James Gradel, a partner in the firm's Commercial Finance and Real Estate Finance practices, has more than 25 years of experience representing institutional and private lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured debt financing transactions. He focuses his practice on senior and mezzanine financing of leveraged buyouts, construction and permanent real estate loans, multilender loan syndications and participations, intercreditor transactions, high yield note offerings, credit enhanced bond f...
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