Our firm has represented various lending institutions in negotiating the terms of and drafting the necessary legal documents for various types of financial transactions. These include real estate construction and permanent loans, working capital loans, asset-based loans, SBA 7(a) and 504 program loans, preferred ship mortgages and municipal and industrial bonds. The experience of the firm includes decades of commercial loan workouts, bankruptcy and litigation concerning attempted takeovers, letters of credit and international business transactions, lender liability for federal withholding taxes of borrowers, lender liability for environmental law violations by borrowers, lender liability in commercial transactions, mortgage escrow account practices, ship mortgage transactions and foreclosures, Article 3, 4 and 9A issues, loan collections and statewide foreclosures.