Corporate Finance

Munsch Hardt has an international reputation in the field of corporate finance. Our Corporate Finance group represents regulated and unregulated creditors, private equity hedge funds, and domestic and foreign financial institutions. This representation gives us a broad perspective in negotiating, documenting and restructuring complex large dollar loans, and combination debt and equity transactions as well as working capital loans, revolving credits and unsecured credit facilities. Munsch Hardt's Corporate Finance group is experienced in project finance transactions, asset backed lending involving a wide variety of assets, inventory financing, equipment financing, oil and gas financing, acquisition financing, accounts receivable financing, syndicated loans, sale/leasebacks, letter of credit facilities, real estate lending, factoring transactions, swap transactions and other types of derivatives. The Corporate Finance group is also experienced in representing offshore private investment funds in loan transactions involving United States funds.

• Representation of mezzanine lenders through the borrower's Chapter 11 bankruptcy and in several adversary proceedings, acquisition of the project under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, restructuring of the existing senior loan documents with International Bank of Commerce, negotiation of all project documents with a Texas based resort, preparation of airport access agreements, modification of pre-existing design agreements, preparation of construction contracts with numerous general contractors and licensing of with the Texas Real Estate Commission.
• Representation of one of the largest global bank groups in the world, as a lender, in a syndicate of senior secured creditors, in connection with the restructure of a $70 million credit facility to an Argentina oil and gas borrower.
• Representation of numerous real estate partnerships in bankruptcy and pre-bankruptcy workouts for Hampton Partners and Daseke Management Company of America.
• Representation of an agent for the 18 member bank group in the transfer of the equity interests of the entities owning the Mystic River and Fore River power plants in Massachusetts to single purpose entities created to hold such interests for the bank group. The projects were assigned to the bank group after various defaults and cost overruns of over $1 billion.
• Representation, as special counsel, for General Wireless, Inc. and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. The debtors were start-up companies formed to bid on, acquire and develop the network for licenses in the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) C-block auction of a 30 megahertz wireless spectrum in major metropolitan areas of the United States. Munsch Hardt and its co-counsel were successful in prosecuting a fraudulent conveyance action against the FCC that resulted in a $954 million reduction of General Wireless Inc.'s indebtedness for the licenses. General Wireless, Inc. confirmed its plan of reorganization over the FCC's objection.