Practice Capabilities
Our Private Placement Group actively engages in all types of private placement financings including workouts and restructurings; mezzanine, second lien and private equity financings; aircraft, railroad rolling stock, electronic data transmission equipment, vehicles, mining equipment, energy facility and real estate leveraged leasing; debt securities of agribusiness entities; leveraged ESOP transactions; leveraged buyouts; project and facility financings; real estate financing; multiple property credit tenant loan securitization; loan and other asset securitizations and secured and unsecured debt financings, including those for UK, Canadian and other foreign issuers.
Clients and Industries
Our Group was instrumental in the early development of credit tenant loan financing and continues to represent lenders in all types of credit tenant loan transactions (CTLs); including multiple property transactions, securitized CTLs, bond type leases, credit type leases, CTLs for governmental agencies (federal, state and local), cross border CTLs involving non-domestic real estate and Section 1031 proprietary structures.
Our clients include the following organizations:
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- Lincoln Delaware Investments
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- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
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- Metropolitan Insurance Company
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- Allstate Insurance Company
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- Nationwide Insurance Company
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- New York Life Insurance Company
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- The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
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- Ohio National Life Insurance Company
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- GE Energy Financial Services
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- Pacific Life Insurance Company
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- Great West Life & Annuity Company
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- The Prudential Insurance Company of America
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- Hartford Financial Services
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- ING Investment Management
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- John Hancock Life Insurance Company
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Leadership in Law
The Firm’s private placement lawyers are Fellows of the American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) and include a past president and trustee of the ACIC, and founder of the ACIC's Transaction Process Management Committee, a committee that has published several placement guides, including Private Placement Process Enhancements, Guide to Amendments, Term Sheet Checklist for Unsecured Debt Transactions and Private Placement Resources Guide.