Financial Services

From Main Street To Wall Street

From secured lending to securitizations, from loan origination to loan enforcement, our Financial Services Department combines the expertise of several disciplines - including Asset-Based Lending, Banking, Bankruptcy, Commercial Lending, Debtor-Creditor, Financial Reorganization, Insurance, Litigation, Real Estate, Structured Finance and Capital Markets, Tax, and Tax Credit and Development Incentives - to serve our clients' debt financing needs.

The attorneys in Polsinelli Shughart PC's Financial Services Department help connect our clients to regional, national, and international financial markets and products. The Financial Services Department represents lenders and borrowers in virtually every phase of finance relationships. Transactions documented and closed by attorneys in the group include real estate and other commercial loans, equipment financing, securitization, asset-based lending, syndicated lending facilities, cash flow lending and loans involving non-traditional collateral.

If it is debt or debt-related, our Financial Services Department has the experience and expertise to handle the project or solve the problem

If a project or problem relates to debt financing in any way, the experienced professionals in our Financial Services Department are prepared to handle it quickly, efficiently, and creatively. In addition to traditional asset-based and covenant-based loans, projects handled by members of our Financial Services Department include:

  • CMBS conduit loans, bridge loans, mezzanine financing (including for SBIC mezzanine debt and equity transactions), warehouse loan facilities, repurchase agreements, loan syndications, loan participations, and other lending arrangements involving every conceivable type of collateral with experience in every state in the U.S.;
  • All types and sizes of loan resturcturings, workouts, enforcement actions, and bankruptcy and business reorganization matters;
  • Corporate banking and related transactions;
  • Loan sales and purchases and other portfolio transactions;
  • Strategic alliances and joint ventures among financial players such as investment banks, insurance companies, commercial banks, and entrepreneurs;
  • Venture capital financing involving financial services companies;
  • Securitization and structured finance;
  • Derivative transactions, including credit derivatives (such as total return swaps and credit-linked notes), interest rate and currency swaps and repurchase agreements
    Tax Credits and Incentives.

For more detailed information on our experience read on:

  • Affordable Housing and Tax Credit Finance and Development
  • Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
  • Banking, Consumer and Financial Services
  • Banking, Consumer and Financial Services Litigation
  • Commercial Lending, Capital Markets and Project Finance
  • Creditor's Rights, Loan Enforcement and Creditor Bankruptcy Representation
  • Financial Services
  • Municipal Finance
  • Real Estate Finance

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Notable Experience

  • Lead counsel in $45 million and $70 million multi-state railroad infrastructure construction projects financed through specialized multi-series bond financings utilizing unique transportation corporation entities.
  • Lead lending counsel in $200 million multi-currency loan transaction to a local corporation and its international subsidiaries in over 17 countries.
  • Lead local lending counsel in $430 million loan to a Missouri public utility secured by specialized utility assets in over 200 locations in over 35 counties.
  • Lead counsel in the purchase out of bankruptcy and financing of multiple manufacturing facilities in three states.
  • Lead counsel in the negotiation, documentation and closing of numerous business, acquisition, real estate, financing and lending transactions involving businesses, companies and assets in over 35 states.
  • Serving as outside general counsel for numerous clients, including an international agricultural products manufacturing company headquartered in Nebraska and with manufacturing facilities in four states, a non-profit senior living and health care community located in Kansas City and a Kansas City-based railroad terminal company owned by five major class-one railroads operating in the western United States (including representing this company for over 12 years and serving for over seven of these years as this company's formally-elected corporate Secretary and General Counsel).