GableGotwals represents financial institutions and other capital providers, borrowers, securities issuers, and other parties in routine and complex financing transactions.
In lending and finance matters, the Firm has a long history of representing national, regional, and local financial institutions, insurance companies, and borrowers of all sizes involved with a broad range of commercial financing transactions and workouts, involving working capital facilities, real estate loans, project finance, letters of credit, and other types of credit arrangements.
Our lender clients have acted in many different capacities including:
- Sole lenders
- Agent banks and members of financial syndications
- Lead lenders or participants
We have handled loans involving a diverse client base, including:
- Airline maintenance, repair and overhaul
- Energy, oil & gas, including refining and processing, oil and gas exploration, and energy transportation
- Food service
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Manufacturing and fabrication
- Publicly traded entities
- Real estate development, including multi-family developments, retail facilities, and industrial buildings
- Transportation, including commercial and private aircraft, vessels, and railroad cars
- Tribes and tribal entities, including gaming facilities
- Utilities
- Wind energy
Many of these loans have facilitated unique transactions or included complicated and unique features, including:
- Subordinated debt facilities or mezzanine debt
- Simple and complex intercreditor agreements
- ISDA documentation and interest rate swaps
- Export-Import Bank of the United States guarantees
- Leveraged buyouts
- Funding of buy-sell agreements
- Rehabilitation tax credits
- Collateral in multiple states and in other countries
- Unusual collateral (including LLC or partnership interests, livestock, revenue pledges and health care receivables)
With respect to public finance, GableGotwals regularly advises non-profit entities (including a major private university and health care system) on tax-exempt bond issuances, and has advised lenders on combined public finance/private loan transactions.
In addition to its work on behalf of financial institutions, our attorneys have advised public and closely-held clients on:
- Recapitalizations
- Letters of credit and revolving credit facilities
- Real estate and capital improvement financing
- Energy finance
- Capital markets
- Private and public debt and equity financing
- PIPE financing
- Project finance
Our corporate finance and securities teams work together to provide guidance with federal and state securities regulations. We also regularly serve as local counsel for lenders and borrowers on large transactions involving specific collateral located in Oklahoma or discreet issues governed by Oklahoma law.
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