Introduction
For decades, Dykema has served as counsel to major institutional lenders, private investment companies (including REITs), as well as borrowers, lessees, and other capital users, in a broad range of commercial debt and equity financing transactions.
Dykema attorneys offer a "full service" approach to financial institutions. Our Commercial Finance attorneys regularly represent virtually all segments of the financial services industry, including national and regional banks, insurance companies, savings and loans, purchasers of distressed debt, equity funds, mezzanine funds, other private equity entities, and credit enhancers of and trustees for public and private bonds in a variety of financial transactions including the negotiation and preparation of documentation for complex secured and unsecured credit transactions, letter of credit facilities to, and private debt placements of, corporate borrowers, structured finance, asset-based and other secured financing (including project finance), leasing, loan participations and syndications and credit enhancement.
Our experienced professionals offer effective and efficient advice to clients in a wide spectrum of financing and lending activities, including:
We handle all aspects of financing and credit transactions, including structuring, documentation, modifications and restructurings, workouts, forbearance agreements, creditors' rights, foreclosures and bankruptcies.
We work closely with each client to understand their particular needs and practices and we assemble client-specific teams of professionals in order to provide consistent service. In addition, we have organized our Commercial Finance Team to mirror product lines offered by financial institutions because we "think like our clients."
For additional information or questions about the Commercial Finance Team contact:
Janet A. Stiven
Leader, 312-627-2153 
