Mezzanine Finance Lawyers

For lenders and investors providing mezzanine debt and other types of junior capital, we offer legal services with a distinctive blend of deal experience, expertise and practical counsel. Handling over 100 transactions in the past three years, our lawyers routinely represent mezzanine funds, small business investment companies (SBICs), business development companies (BDCs) and other providers of junior capital. We are creative yet pragmatic in structuring deals, closely attuned to the market and our clients’ businesses, and fundamentally solution-oriented. Instead of over-complicating transactions, we take a deal driven approach focused on reasonable market terms to achieve the best and most efficient outcome.

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We counsel clients on a wide variety of transactions, including unitranche debt; first-out and last-out senior loans; second lien debt; secured and unsecured subordinated debt; preferred, common and strip equity co-investments; and warrant and other equity kickers. We can assist with portfolio company sales and exits, as well as with restructuring and insolvency matters. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, our law firm handles investments in a diverse range of industries, such as healthcare, energy, financial services, food and beverage services, education, government contracting, social media, communications, software, information technology, distribution, transportation, construction and manufacturing. Because of our extensive work with sophisticated clients and complex deals across the nation, we maintain an updated perspective of market terms for mezzanine transactions, including debt and equity co-investment structures and subordination and intercreditor terms.

Our Mezzanine Finance practice is supported by attorneys with deep experience in private equity deals, senior secured lending, and mergers and acquisitions. Backed by the strength of a full-service business and litigation law firm, we specialize in integrated deal management with lawyers in our Mergers and Acquisitions, Tax, Employment, Labor and Human Resources, Debt Finance and Restructuring, Insolvency and Creditors’ Rights practices, plus others as needed, for each transaction. We provide thoughtfully tailored counsel, with heavy involvement and oversight by senior lawyers, while offering you significant value. Priding ourselves on the trust and confidence we build with clients, we are fortunate to enjoy relationships that span decades.

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