Commercial Finance

As part of our in-depth experience in banking, we routinely represent lenders and borrowers in all aspects of commercial financing transactions. This includes asset based lending, creditors’ rights, real estate, hotel financings, oil and gas and mezzanine financing.

Representative Transactions

• Academy of the Sacred Heart/Christ Episcopal School of Covington/First Baptist Church of New Orleans/Trinity Church (Episcopal)(bond financings for facilities)
• Amedisys, Inc. (secured revolving and term loans with Wachovia Bank)
• ASCo Group PLC (revolving credit facility with Bank of Scotland; revolving credit facilities with Fleet Capital Corporation and Wells Fargo Bank)
• ATM cash syndications for First Bank & Trust and Innovus, Inc.
• First Commerce Corporation ($1.5 billion bank note offering; $750 million sale of loans to Lehman Bros.)
• Offshore Logistics, Inc. (revolving credit facility from Whitney National Bank)
• PHI, Inc. (Amendment and Restatement of Loan Agreement with Bank of America, N.A., Whitney National Bank, and Bank One, N.A.; $200,000,000 high yield debt offering)
• Robinson Lumber Company, Inc. (revolving lines of credit with Hibernia National Bank)
• S&P Cellular Holdings, Inc. (Petrocom) (corporate restructuring and refinancing of bank debt facility)
• US Unwired Inc. ($180 million senior loan facility)
• Whitney National Bank (syndicated secured mineral loan to LLOG Exploration Company)
• Wyndham International, Inc. (hotel financing for New Orleans Wyndham hotels)
• Xspedius, LLC ($226 million vendor financing with Lucent Technologies, Inc.)
• IberiaBank and Capital One Bank ($65 million drawdown bond facility to finance New Orleans Aviation Board improvements to Louis Armstrong International Airport)