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Overview
Dykema’s Debt Finance practice advise a wide array of public and privately held companies in debt financing matters including:
- Single bank loans
- Syndicated credit facilities
- First and second lien facilities
- Senior and subordinated loans
- Asset-based loans
- Acquisition financings
- Private placements
- Rule 144A and registered high yield debt offerings
- Leveraged buyouts
- Public finance note and bond transactions
- Bridge financings
- Mezzanine financings
- Infrastructure and project financings
- ESOP financings
- Nonprofit debt financings
- Factoring arrangements
- Interest rate swaps
- Letters of credit
- Workouts and restructurings
- Commercial real estate financings
- Structured finance
- Local counsel representation and debt financing opinions
We have assisted clients in a wide-variety of industries such as agricultural, biotech, communications, direct marketing, energy, health care, information technology, manufacturing, retail, sports, utilities and vacation resorts.
Experience
- Represented a medical device manufacturer in connection with its $2 billion financing of acquisition.
- Advised a medical technology company in connection with its syndicated $500 million revolving credit facility with $150 million accordion.
- Represented livestock reproduction company in $130 million term loan and revolving asset based credit facility.
- Advised a petroleum company in connection with refinancing of $190 million term loan and revolving credit facility.
- Represented a marketing services company in connection with refinancing of its $80 million revolving credit facility and $120 million term loan facility.
- Represented emerging medical device company in connection with $25 million multi-draw term loan facility.
- Counseled a Canadian subsidiary of global communications company in connection with $30 million real estate financing.
- Represented a medical technology company in connection with its leveraged acquisition by a consortium of investors and the concurrent reorganization of one of its subsidiaries, which financing including a $2.5 billion senior secured credit facility, $1.75 billion aggregate principal amount of second lien senior secured 144A notes, and $750 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured 144A notes.
- Represented nonprofit in connection with $15 million tax-exempt and taxable conduit public bond financing for structured parking facility.
- Counseled an IT solutions provider in connection with its leveraged dividend recapitalization, consisting of a $260 million senior secured term loan facility and a $20 million senior secured revolving loan facility.
- Advised a regional grocery chain, owned by employee stock ownership trust, in connection with $113 million cash-flow based credit facility.
- Represented a regional grocery chain in connection with $135 million asset-based credit facility.
- Counseled an oil and gas exploration company in connection with issuance of $125 million 144A senior secured notes.
- Advised an oil exploration company in connection with $30 million private placement notes.
- Advised a regional grocery chain in connection with $25 million senior subordinated private placement notes.
- Represented a distressed skilled nursing facilities operator in connection with workout of senior secured credit facilities.
- Advised an electric cooperative in connection multiple facility Indenture, including US Department of Agriculture loans and tax exempt bonds guaranteed by the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation.
- Represented an agricultural cooperative in connection with its $26.5 million bridge loan and letter of credit backed conduit bond financing.
- Advised a county hospital district in connection with its $45 million HUD Section 242 Mortgage Loan.
- Acted as local counsel to numerous borrowers and local subsidiaries and provided corporate and secured transaction opinions in connection with complex structured debt financings.