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Structured Finance & Securitization

Structuring, negotiating and documenting structured finance and securitization transactions needs expertise in several key areas. Are you prepared?

We understand the business, regulatory, accounting, tax and administrative issues that come with structured finance and securitization transactions for all asset classes.

Our team combines lawyers from banking, debt capital markets, bankruptcy and insolvency, securities and capital markets, commercial real estate, tax and corporate commercial law.

The result is a dedicated and comprehensive focus on addressing your needs from every angle and solving your unique issues.

 

Experience

  • RFA Capital Partners Inc. and RFA CMBS Limited Partnership as the purchaser of “eligible horizontal residual interests” from Real Estate Asset Liquidity Trust, a CMBS conduit of Royal Bank of Canada. These commercial mortgage-backed securitizations were the first three Canadian CMBS deals completed in compliance with the U.S. Risk Retention Rules under Dodd Frank: (i) Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2017 of approximately $377 million, (ii) Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2018-1 of approximately $327 million and (iii) Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2019-1 of approximately $416 million
  • A major Canadian Schedule I Bank, as agent, and a syndicate of lenders in negotiating a commitment to provide financing at the target level in the $525 million management buyout and go-private transaction of a Canadian public company with international operations.
  • AutoCanada Inc., Canada's largest multi-location automobile dealership group by volume, in a new expanded credit arrangement with a syndicate of banks, providing secured credit facilities up to $1.08 billion. AutoCanada used this credit facility to partially finance its approximately $110 million acquisition of Grossinger Auto Group in Illinois, U.S.

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