Corporate trust is a complex financial and legal area that demands specialized fiduciary and commercial finance knowledge, skill and strategic finesse. With extensive experience in all types of corporate trust transactions, our attorneys represent the corporate trust and loan agency departments of banks and financial institutions acting as trustees and agents in a variety of domestic and international financing transactions, as well as default administration and complex corporate insolvency matters.
We regularly advise market-leading corporate trust and agency providers in their various roles on banking, structured finance and capital markets transactions, including note trustee, security trustee, cash manager, calculation agent and custodian roles. We have experience and expertise in providing advice on new issuance and post-issuance matters, including compliance, redemption and liability management exercises as well as potential and actual defaults, enforcement actions, liquidations, refinancings and restructurings.
We have experience in sophisticated, technical and fast-developing areas, and our team regularly advises trustees on complicated and innovative structured finance transactions (including securitizations, CDOs and CLNs). We regularly advise trustees and other service providers on complicated and challenging issues arising from time to time during the life of a transaction including advising on interpretation of documents and litigation and we are experienced in advising on and managing intercreditor disputes.
As part of our comprehensive counseling services, we advise clients concerning their roles as:
- Trustees, including indenture, owner, successor and voting trustees
- Agents, including collateral, dissemination, escrow, fiscal, paying, registrar and transfer, investment and tender agents
- Document custodians and other custody positions
To provide the highest quality client service, we use our integrated network of highly skilled lawyers in related practice areas, such as our restructuring, litigation and dispute resolution groups to form multi-disciplinary teams customized for your requirements. We supplement our core global corporate trust and agency team with lawyers from other practices as matters dictate. Given the diversity of our corporate trust and agency practice, each of our insolvency, restructuring, tax, regulatory, litigation and dispute resolution teams has professionals with experience in advising corporate trust and agency providers – and these professionals complement the core team of advisers.
Our lawyers are noted for their commercial, approachable style and for applying first-class deal management and negotiation skills to ensure that even the most complex corporate trust and agency representations are executed in a constructive, practical and timely manner. We recognize that our service ‘style’ and negotiation strategies reflect on our clients, and we strive to align our approach with your preferences to benefit your business.