Michael P. Schumaecker
+1.212.858.1433

Pillsbury’s finance lawyers represent domestic and international clients in a wide variety of regulatory advice and financial transactions, including commercial lending, derivatives, equipment finance, leveraged finance, project finance, trade finance, structured finance and debt restructuring. Our clients are typically foreign and domestic banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. We also serve the company side of financial transactions for our firm’s corporate clients.

Our finance lawyers’ broad experience exposes them to the full spectrum of legal and business issues that shape complex financing and investment transactions. They combine in-depth knowledge of various industries with financing skills to help structure, document and close domestic and cross-border transactions. We advise on a full range of secured and unsecured financings, including asset-based credit facilities, acquisition facilities, financial asset warehouse facilities, letter of credit and acceptance facilities, commercial paper conduit and capital market back-up facilities. Our attorneys provide skilled representation in every aspect of equipment finance, with transaction experience in aircraft, rail, satellites, telecommunications and other equipment, and fixed assets such as coal mines, manufacturing facilities and electric power plants. We also advise the financial service sector on regulatory matters, including product design and geographic and functional expansion, and compliance matters. In project finance, clients call on us for early project development matters related to bidding, contracting and regulatory work, structuring a project’s commercial contracts to support financing objectives, and for tax and local matters. We are also experienced in representing clients in distressed debt situations – both on the creditor and debtor side.