Finance
Vasallo Sloane advises commercial lenders, financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a wide variety of debt capital and commercial lending transactions. Small business financing is an area of special emphasis for us. We conduct venture capital and private equity transactions, including capital sourcing and a review of the relevant legal, regulatory and tax issues. We advise early to mid-stage companies on growth and exit strategies and structure the exit transactions. We advise sponsors, project joint ventures, contractors and developers on domestic and cross-border project financing.
We assist clients in real estate finance, including property acquisition, development, construction, and long term lending, both via private loans and government-sponsored-entity backed loans.
Our Finance Group focuses on the following areas of emphasis:
Corporate Finance
- Domestic and global bank loans and credit facilities, including term and revolving loans, letter of credit facilities, and bridge loans
- Secured and unsecured loans/facilities
- Senior and subordinated debt
- Asset Based Lending
- Inbound and outbound trade financing
Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Advising early, mid-stage, and mature companies on capital acquisition from angel investment through venture capital, private equity and investment banking sources
- Conducting comprehensive due diligence, tax-minimized structuring, and transactional documentation of investments for venture capital and private equity clients
- Cross-border investment transactions
- Strategic acquisitions of private and public companies
- Strategic exits, including buyouts, going private transactions, IPOs, LBOs, MBOs, spin-offs, split-offs, and split ups
- Representation of portfolio companies, including advising portfolio boards and management on corporate governance, labor and employment law, intellectual property, real estate law, and tax law and other areas of law applicable to the specific portfolio entity
- Strategic alternative reviews
Project Finance
- Limited and non-recourse project financing
- Project bonds and private placements
- Construction and term debt facilities
- Export credit agency financings
- Multi-source lending
- Infrastructure projects, including energy, telecommunications, agriculture, mining and natural resources, and transportation
Real Estate Finance
- Land acquisition financing
- Commercial development financing, including debt and equity project financing
- Commercial property acquisition financing, including loan securitization
- Multi-family residential property acquisition financing, including HUD loans
- Cross-border financing transactions
- Loan modifications, refinancing, and workouts