The equipment finance transaction is often part of a much broader finance strategy and as such, an equipment finance lawyer is involved in the following types of transactions as well as classic traditional loans and lease documentation:
Syndications
Securitizations
Concurrent Leases
Wholesale Finance
Portfolio and Asset Sales
Lending to Finance Companies
Program and Remarketing Agreements
Skills\n
Equipment finance lawyers need to be well-versed in a number of areas of law including:
Personal property security
Insolvency and bankruptcy
Tax law (both commodity and cross-border)
Regulations relevant to finance and lease transactions, and the financiers who participate (including anti-money laundering)
Regulations relevant to consumer, privacy and similar
Inter-lender legal relationships and rights
Law supporting the concepts necessary for securitization
Accounting and financial concepts required for structuring and covenant setting
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