Finance

RPB has extensive experience representing borrowers and lenders in connection with asset-based business loans, corporate finance, mixed collateral loans and real estate lending including senior and mezzanine loans for acquisition, repositioning, and refinancing for long-term investment, as well as in loan participations. The firm’s reputation for both responsiveness and creative thinking has resulted in cost-effective opportunities for its clients that might not otherwise have been available.

Our litigators are experienced in enforcing the rights of creditors against borrowers and guarantors, and foreclosing on assets of all classes. We are equally effective in protecting the rights of our borrower clients.

The firm has specialized experience in advising both Native American borrowers and non-Indian lenders with respect to the Indian Law aspects of financing hotel/casino and other real estate projects in Indian Country.

In connection with large multi-state, multi-property mortgage financing transactions, the firm acts as special California counsel to borrowers and borrower-related entities in connection with the rendering of required opinions, including numerous opinions in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loans, and advice to borrowers in matters relating to compliance with California law.

We also have served as borrower’s counsel on numerous loans financed with the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds, and have a long history of advising borrowers in connection with the structuring of such bonds, and in planning for and coordinating the defeasance and refunding of loans financed with bond proceeds.