Stuart D. Ames

Stuart D. Ames, who heads the Firm’s Commercial Lending & Asset-Based Finance practice, is a Shareholder in the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on commercial and asset-based lending, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate and securities matters. Stuart is a frequent lecturer on business entities and corporate and secured financing law, and regularly serves as an expert witness on business entity and commercial finance matters.

• $75 million syndicated working capital and partner investment financing to international law firm.
• $33 million revolving credit facilities for Austrian-based international bank.
• $22,750,000 credit facilities to partner-employees of private equity firm for limited partner capital investment financing.
• $22 million acquisition financing for major money-center bank.
• Represents major commercial banks and other financial institutions in leveraged buyout and acquisition financing, private equity investor financing, development bond and tax credit project financing, aircraft and vessel financing, syndicated financings, international finance, credit enhancement transactions, debt restructurings, and workouts.
• Recent transactions for commercial banks included over $200 million in aircraft acquisition financing.
• Represented a major money-center bank as Agent in a $700 million syndicated financing for a twenty-bank syndicate to a national home builder.
• Represented major commercial banks in connection with two $15 million unsecured lines of credit, $15 million secured letter of credit for cruise line, $50 million unsecured letter of credit and banker’s acceptance facility to holding company of Central American automobile dealerships, $235 million of secured revolving lines of credit and term loans to various law firms throughout the United States, $5.6 million private jet aircraft term loan.
• Represented REITs in $181 million secured acquisition lines of credit.
• Loan counsel in $50 million syndicated Fixed Rate Senior Note offering.
• Experienced expert witness in cases involving corporate, partnership, LLC and commercial financing disputes.

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