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Banking and Finance

Our Banking and Finance lawyers advise on all types of debt transactions, crafting creative solutions that satisfy the parties’ requirements and preserve the borrower-lender relationship.

  • Kramer Levin’s Banking and Finance group represents a large number of borrowers and major lenders, providing legal and transactional advice on a wide variety of financing arrangements. Because we represent both borrowers and lenders, we can offer our clients uncommon perspective and tremendous insight into each party’s needs as well as deep knowledge and broad experience in market-leading terms and the latest financing strategies.

    Our U.S. Banking and Finance team  advises on all types of debt transactions, crafting creative solutions that satisfy the parties’ requirements and preserve the borrower-lender relationship — and is complemented by an EU Banking and Finance Regulation and Compliance team.

    We staff matters cost-effectively, with small teams of experienced lawyers formed around a highly involved partner. When the need arises, we collaborate with members of our other practice groups — Mergers and Acquisitions, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Securitization, and Tax, among others — to ensure that our clients receive the advantage of the latest legal and financial innovations.

    We structure, negotiate, document and close financing transactions of every size and type, including:

    • Leveraged financings
    • Securitization transactions
    • Investment grade financings
    • Multicurrency facilities
    • Cross-border financings
    • Bank and bond financings
    • Asset-based financings
    • Collateralized loan obligations
    • Working capital financings
    • Second lien, mezzanine and unitranche financings
    • Exit financings
    • Workouts
    • Debtor-in-possession financings
    • Distressed debt purchases and sales
    • Equipment financings and leasing
    • Leveraged leasing
    • Mortgage warehouse lending
    • Municipal bond financings

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  • Perspectives

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    • Client Alerts
      March 08, 2024
      LSTA Issues Guide on Sustainable Loan Principles in Fund Finance
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    • Client Alerts
      Feb. 20, 2024
      The 2023 SNC Review Results: Increased Critical Loans Observed
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    • Announcements
      Nov. 06, 2023
      Kramer Levin Named in Top Tier by 2024 Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms Rankings
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    • Announcements
      Sept. 22, 2023
      2023 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 90 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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    • Defining Matters
      Sept. 05, 2023
      Kramer Levin Represents Administrative Agent and Lender in $65 Million Home Improvement Loan Warehouse Facility
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    • Articles
      April 10, 2023
      The Banking System Needs Wholesale Reform, Not Biden’s Proposal
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    • Client Alerts
      March 20, 2023
      Defaulting Lenders Under Unitranche Facilities
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    • Defining Matters
      March 01, 2023
      Kramer Levin Advises on Placement of $500 Million of 2.00% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2030 of Exact Sciences Corp.
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    • Defining Matters
      Feb. 09, 2023
      Premier Brands Group Upsizes Asset-Based Loan and Extends Term Loan
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    • Announcements
      Feb. 06, 2023
      Scott Welkis Joins Kramer Levin as Partner in the Banking and Finance Group and Chair of Special Situations Practice
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    • Speaking Engagement
      Jan. 26, 2023
      American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers: UCC Article 9 Foreclosure Sales
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    • Client Alerts
      Jan. 06, 2023
      Federal Banking Regulators Issue Joint Statement on Crypto-Asset Risks to Banking Organizations
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    • Defining Matters
      Dec. 27, 2022
      Kramer Levin Represents Francisco Partners in Connection With Strategic Growth Investment in Acoustic, LP
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    • Announcements
      Nov. 08, 2022
      Kramer Levin Named in Top Tier by 2023 U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms Rankings
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    • Announcements
      Sept. 30, 2022
      2022 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 80 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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    • Defining Matters
      June 08, 2022
      Kramer Levin Represents Administrative Agent and Lender in $100 Million Secured Revolving Credit Facility
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    • Client Alerts
      Feb. 03, 2022
      Final Treasury Regulations Cushion Potential Tax Ramifications of Vanishing LIBOR
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    • Announcements
      Sept. 30, 2021
      2021 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 80 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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    • Debt Dialogue
      May 26, 2021
      New York’s LIBOR Replacement Law: A Useful Step That Leaves Lingering Questions for ‘Tough Legacy’ Contracts
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    • Debt Dialogue
      April 15, 2021
      An Introduction to Sustainability Linked Loans
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    • Client Alerts
      Jan. 06, 2021
      SEC Provides Disclosure Guidance on SPAC IPO and Subsequent Business Combination Transactions
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    • Client Alerts
      Dec. 21, 2020
      How Regulation of Leveraged Lending Will Change Under President Biden
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    • Client Alerts
      Dec. 17, 2020
      GAO Report Finds that Leveraged Lending Has Not Threatened Financial Stability
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    • Client Alerts
      Dec. 08, 2020
      SEC Adopts Amendments to MD&A and Financial Disclosures
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    • Client Alerts
      Dec. 02, 2020
      LIBOR Benchmark Administrator to Cease Publication of One-Week and Two-Month U.S. Dollar LIBOR on Dec. 31, 2021, and the Remaining U.S. Dollar LIBOR Settings on June 30, 2023
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    • Client Alerts
      Nov. 20, 2020
      Trump Administration Proposes Rule to Thwart Resurrection of Leveraged Lending Guidance
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    • Announcements
      Oct. 28, 2020
      2020 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 90 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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    • COVID-19 Legal Resource Guide
      Oct. 09, 2020
      SEC Issues Report on Credit Market Interconnectedness and the Effects of the COVID-19 Economic Shock
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    • Client Alerts
      Sept. 29, 2020
      New CDI Clarifies the Form S-3 Eligibility of Companies That Go Public via Merger Into a SPAC
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    • COVID-19 Legal Resource Guide
      Aug. 31, 2020
      Federal Reserve Board Provides Guidance on Use of Cash Collateral Deposits and Delay Draw Balances and Clarity on Eligible Business Safe Harbor Provisions Under the Main Street Lending Program
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  • Recognition

    2017 – 2024
    Chambers Global
    Recognized for Banking and Finance: Financial Services Regulation (France)
    "Highly regarded financial services team offering expertise across multiple jurisdictions including the USA, Switzerland and Luxembourg." (2017)
    2010 – 2014, 2022 – 2023
    U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers' Best Law Firms
    Ranked in the Top Tier for Banking (New York) 
    2015
    Chambers USA
    Recognized for Banking and Finance
    2016
    Chambers Europe
    Recognized for Banking and Finance: Financial Services Regulation. 
    "Has expertise on regulated hedge funds and funds structuring, both in France and abroad."
    2016
    Legal 500 EMEA
    Recognized for Banking and Finance. 
    "Kramer Levin has a leading banking regulatory practice and advises on the latest developments, such as crowdfunding, fintech and online payment matters."
    2013 – 2022
    IFLR1000 (France)
    Recognized for Banking
    2009-2010
    Legal 500 Paris
    Recognized for Banking and Finance

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