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Foley’s Finance attorneys offer extensive transactional and counseling services to a wide range of clients in the financial services industry.

We execute transactions across a wide range of financial market sectors on behalf of banks and other commercial lenders, institutional investors, underwriters and agents, other financial institutions, corporate borrowers and issuers, governmental and other public issuers, trustees and trust companies, and derivatives counterparties. The depth and breadth of our transactional experience gives us a clear understanding of current market terms and practices. With offices across the country and overseas, we are able to meet all your financial legal needs in the United States and abroad.

Below we outline our finance-related services.


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Laura L. Bilas
Chair

Edward J. Hammond
Vice Chair
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Airport and Aviation Industry Services
Foley attorneys address complicated legal, regulatory, financing, and contractual issues facing aviation-related entities, including airport operators and purchasers, sellers, lessors, lessees, manufacturers, and financiers involved in aircraft transactions.
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Asset Securitization Transaction Structures
We will work with you to develop innovative securitization transaction structures that help meet your needs in the capital markets.
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Bank Regulatory Services
We have substantial experience with the federal, state, and international regulatory schemes within which banks and other financial institutions operate and can provide you with a full range of support regarding any regulatory issues that affect your business.
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Borrower Representation Services
We represent both public and private borrowers in a broad cross-section of industries in every form of sophisticated finance transaction.
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Consumer Financial Services
We have a multidisciplinary team of attorneys with many years of experience advising and representing clients in all aspects of consumer finance services.
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Education Finance
In the past 30 years, we have served as underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s and transaction counsel, bond counsel, special tax counsel, and regulatory counsel in more than 140 transactions involving billions of dollars of student loan asset-backed securities and student loan revenue bonds.
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Energy Project Finance
With a particular focus on the energy market, we can structure and document your various transactions in wind-powered electric facilities; solar projects; combined-cycle and cogeneration facilities; waste heat, wood-chip, ethanol, bio-diesel, biomass, and other waste-to-energy facilities; hydropower facilities; and repowering of dormant electric generated assets.
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Equipment and Lease Finance
We have significant experience in providing legal services in equipment finance, leasing and public finance for a myriad of industries.
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Financial Institutions
Foley’s Financial Institutions attorneys have the breadth and depth of experience combined with the geographical reach necessary to serve the diverse needs of financial institutions.
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Health Care Finance
The Health Care Finance attorneys of Foley & Lardner LLP counsel on financing and capital structures for the health care industry.
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Lender Representation
With a significant portion of our Finance & Financial Institutions Practice dedicated to representing banks and other commercial lenders, we can assist you in a wide variety of national and international financing transactions.
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Opportunity Zones
Foley’s Opportunity Zone Team is well-positioned to advise investors, fund sponsors, developers, business leaders, and municipalities on how to take advantage of these benefits.
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Private Placements and Institutional Investment
We regularly represent both institutional investors and corporate issuers in private placements, Rule 144A issues, and other long-term debt placements and related financing transactions.
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Project and Infrastructure Finance
Many of our attorneys regularly practice in the area of project and infrastructure finance.
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Public Finance
The Public Finance attorneys of Foley & Lardner LLP counsel on public finance for various transaction types and market sectors.
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Public Private Partnerships (P3), Transportation & Infrastructure
Foley’s P3, Transportation and Infrastructure Practice draws strength from its multi-disciplinary team which possesses years of experience in real estate, public finance, securities, environmental, public affairs, energy (both transactional and regulatory practice), airport services, rail, and other modes of transportation, representing clients in connection with their P3, Transportation and Infrastructure needs.
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Swaps and Derivatives
We are able to provide you with comprehensive legal services related to swaps and derivatives transactions, represent you in litigation relating to government investigations of swaps and derivatives transactions, and obtain the necessary patents for various structures.
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