Corporate and Finance Practice

Clients receive innovative and aggressive representation by the Corporate and Finance Department. The lawyers in this department provide pragmatic, creative counsel and serve as deal-makers, not deal-breakers, which consistently enables clients to find solutions to difficult problems.

We assist our lending clients from start to finish, from the commitment letter to the documentation stage to the reorganization stage and when necessary, to the workout and insolvency stages. Our commercial real estate clients include developers and lenders. On their behalf, we develop and finance various types of properties including: apartment buildings, condominiums, HUD projects, congregate-care facilities, nursing homes, shopping centers, casino gaming facilities, office buildings, manufacturing facilities and hotels.

As evidence of our involvement in complex and first-time issues, we recently represented our client in obtaining the first public offering by a Native American tribe.

In our bankruptcy and workout practices, clients include all those who may be affected by bankruptcy and reorganization cases: secured creditors, creditors' committees, trustees and debtors. Each client is served by a team of lawyers experienced in commercial loan documentation, commercial and bankruptcy law issues, negotiation, taxation and litigation. When required, we have represented clients in bankruptcy courts at the trial and appellate level.

Our Corporate and Finance lawyers have been recognized by their clients and peers as experts and have served or continue to serve as public, civic and professional leaders.

Notable positions held by our lawyers in the Corporate and Finance Department include:

• Chairman of Greater Hartford Transit District
• Recipient of the Eagleton Institute Outstanding Legislator Award
• Connecticut State Senator
• Senate Majority Leader

Commercial Finance

• Asset-based lending
• Leveraged acquisitions
• Term loans
• Equipment financing
• Intercreditor financing
• Mortgage warehousing
• Surety/guarantor financing
• Debt restructuring

Commercial Real Estate

• Loan structuring and closing
• Acquisitions and leasing
• Permitting
• Development and financing
• Environmental clean-up orders
• Shared equity arrangements
• Leasehold mortgages
• Sale-leasebacks
• Wrap-around mortgages
• UDAG financings
• Revolving credit facilities
• Industrial development bonds
• Workout and restructuring
• Zoning and land use
• Foreclosure

Bankruptcy and Creditor's Rights

• Corporate reorganization plans
• Litigation and appeals
• Defense of guarantors

Workouts

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Leveraged buyouts

Public Finance

• Syndications
• Structured finance

Lease Finance
Tribal Gaming

• Financing
• Permitting
• Real estate - title, trust
• Employment
• Entertainment contracts
• Equipment leasing/financing
• Government relations

Attorneys in this practice area

John W. Bradley, Jr.
Richard P. Healey
Lewis B. Rome
Brian Courtney
Harvey Hoberman
Matthew J. Hoberman
George P. Generas, Jr. (of counsel)