Finance
Our lawyers have dealt with the full range of legal
concerns affecting clients in the financial services industry.
Representing lenders, we have completed more than $1 billion in
credit transactions since 1988. We have also served as regional
counsel on complex multistate and international transactions
totaling more than $5 billion. Our bank clients include national
banks headquartered in our region as well as other major domestic
and foreign banks. We also represent a number of non-bank
institutional lenders, insurance companies and accounting
firms.
In our representation of lender clients, we
have:
- Prevented multi-million dollar credit losses by identifying
structural flaws in financing programs that the lenders were
prepared to implement.
- Overcome legal obstacles, ranging from labor injunctions to
environmental hazards, that threatened completion of sound lending
transactions.
- Identified additional assets available as collateral, ranging
from aircraft to patents and trademarks, and improved our lender
clients' position by securing the loans with that collateral
too.
- Defused potential lender liability claims by formulating
strategies that enabled our lender clients to achieve their
objectives without being exposed to liability claims.
- Co-led the triage and turnaround of a troubled national bank
victimized by a massive scheme of irregular loans.
- Structured and completed numerous joint venture arrangements,
including one in the insurance industry that returned more than
1,000% on the client's investment during a three year period.
- Represented a bank holding company in a rights offering and
follow-on public offering of its common stock. The offering was
initiated in response to a consent order with the OCC and the
Federal Reserve that required the bank holding company and the bank
it controlled to restore capital depleted by management
malfeasance.
- Represented a large accounting firm as special counsel and
arbitrator of a post-closing purchase price adjustment and other
disputes associated with the sale of a company.
- Represented several banks in connection with asset based
revolving credit and term loan facilities for a multitude of
different entities.
- Represented a bank in connection with participation agreements
of a crane and construction equipment manufacturer.
- Represented a printing company in obtaining a multi-million
dollar credit facility from a New York based lender.
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James F. Bauerle
Keevican Weiss & Bauerle LLC
Director of Legal and Business Services
210 Sixth Avenue, 35th Floor
Pittsburgh PA,
15222Phone:Work 412.355.2605
Fax:Fax 412.355.2609