Mezzanine Finance

Comprehensive Service

V&E’s Finance lawyers advise on a wide variety of mezzanine loan transactions involving businesses across industries and on a global scale. We offer counsel on all aspects and at every stage of financing transactions, facilitating the entire loan process from structuring and drafting to negotiating the documents and deal terms, executing the transactions, and addressing all post-closing issues and contingencies. We are experienced with all types of investments, whether they take the form of debt, equity, conveyances of real property interests, or any combination thereof.

Our Finance lawyers represent alternative lenders, such as private equity funds, mezzanine funds, and hedge funds, as well as borrowers. As leaders in both finance and energy, we are highly experienced and particularly adept at handling mezzanine loans involving energy assets and energy-industry borrowers.

Value-Added Service

Employing an integrated approach, we work closely with lawyers in our Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Restructuring & Reorganization practices, among others at our firm, to provide tailor-made solutions when significant changes impact borrowers and their ability to repay loans. We leverage their knowledge and skill to provide guidance that enables our clients to minimize their tax liability while maximizing gain both in engaging in loan transactions and when exiting relationships. In addition, we retain a full-time staff of property analysts who conduct investigations to assess business risks and liabilities and assure that borrowers have proper title to loan collateral.