Banking & Finance

We represent local, regional, and national banks as well as other lenders on commercial loans secured by real property, inventory, receivables, and other forms of personal property, including intellectual property.

Our work includes complex banking transactions involving:

• Secured and Unsecured Credit Transactions
• Asset-Based Financing Transactions
•  Acquisition Loans
• Construction Loans
• Real Estate Development Lending
• Repurchase Agreements
• Refinancing and Modifications
• Letters of Credit
• Loan Enforcements
• Workouts and Restructurings
• Syndicated Financing Facilities
• Federal and State Regulatory Compliance

We assist clients with all aspects of structuring, negotiating, documenting, closing, administering, restructuring, working out loans, and related transactions. Should issues relating to entity formation, environmental issues, or litigation arise, clients can readily access the resources of our multidisciplinary legal bench. Our representative experience includes:

• Negotiating a $400 million unsecured line of credit with Bank of America for a leading national reseller of salvaged vehicles based in Solano County
• Representing a syndication of banks in a $65 million loan to a recreation company
• Structuring a $150 million asset sale with 338(H)(10) election for a financial institution
• Representing banks and other financial institutions in hundreds of loan transactions.

We provide counsel to both lenders and borrowers with accounting and tax advantages in mind. Representative matters include:

• Represented a real estate investment company in a private placement for construction of a medical building
• Counseled a construction products company in its $40-50-million private placement and debt financing

Whether through negotiated settlements or the bankruptcy process, our attorneys represent clients in collateral dispositions, as well as the restructuring, workout, and recovery of assets. We have represented institutional and individual creditors in Chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 cases, as well as creditor committees.

We represent several specialty financial institutions that operate as originators, investors, securitizers, public and private mortgage REITs, and private equity funds.

Representative transactions include:

• Negotiated mortgage loan warehousing facilities on behalf of originators and conduit investors
• Represented publicly-traded REITs as sellers and sponsors of private-label residential mortgage-backed securities
• Served as legal counselor to the manager of a private equity fund with investments of more than $1 billion in mortgage-backed securities
• Represented the manager of a group of private equity funds in raising capital for investment in distressed mortgage assets
• Represented lending institutions in the secondary market for residential and commercial mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights

Weintraub Tobin Ranked in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2020 “Best Law Firms”

SACRAMENTO, CA (November 1, 2019) – Weintraub Tobin, a leading California full-service law firm, was honored to be recognized with eight first-tier rankings in the 2020 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.” The complete list of rankings is published on the U.S.

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14 Weintraub Tobin Attorneys Named to Best of the Bar 2019

  SACRAMENTO, California  – Weintraub Tobin congratulates its 14 attorneys who have been included in Sacramento Business Journal’s Best of the Bar 2019. Attorneys selected to the 2019 Best of the Bar list include Gary L.

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19 Weintraub Tobin Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2020

  SACRAMENTO, CA (August 15, 2019) – Weintraub Tobin, a leading California full-service law firm, is pleased to announce that 19 of our attorneys have been recognized on the 2020 The Best Lawyers in America list.

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