Practice Areas > Commercial and Asset-Based Financing
PDF Stearns Weaver Miller’s Commercial and Asset-Based Finance practice represents major financial institutions with established lending activities in Florida, as well as borrowers and out-of-state lenders, including commercial banks, private equity shops and hedge funds.
We are well versed in secured transactions, including all aspects of Revised Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as bankruptcy-related concepts, securities laws implications of certain lending arrangements, and aircraft, maritime, and cross-border financing transactions.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions and, in particular, in representing lenders to private equity shops and hedge funds. Our lending clients include major money center banks, local commercial banks and savings institutions, finance companies, and investment banks. By teaming with the firm's real estate, bankruptcy, tax, and intellectual property lawyers, we are able to add value to our financial institution clients by evaluating credit risks that depend on analysis of issues in those substantive areas.
Our commercial and asset-based finance attorneys also assist our credit provider clients in distressed debtor situations. We pride ourselves on finding creative ways of structuring workout and turnaround debt and equity transactions in order to avoid the consequences of insolvency to our lending clients. We are proud to assist our lending institution clients in structuring their credit transactions and in finding creative, and sometimes novel, solutions to difficult issues.