We represent community banks and major regional, national and international financial institutions. These clients include borrowers and investors whom we represent in the structuring, negotiating and closing of a wide range of loans and other financings and financial transactions. The attorneys in our banking and finance group provide a balanced and pragmatic approach to achieving our clients' business and financial objectives.

With offices throughout North Carolina and South Carolina, we have represented major financial institutions in sophisticated lending and other financial transactions. Our attorneys also regularly represent institutional borrowers, investors, project sponsors, manufacturers and developers in secured and unsecured corporate, commercial and real estate loans and other financial accommodations.

Experience Highlights

• Secured real estate lending for income producing properties including office/warehouse facilities, hotels, apartment and condominium projects, golf courses, office parks, regional malls, shopping centers, other retail sites, skilled care nursing homes and assisted living facilities
• Representation of bank syndicates in secured and unsecured credit facilities, including acquisition, term, letter of credit, liquidity facilities and revolving credit facilities and other similar financings
• Structuring and implementation of multi-leveled financings, combining the issuance of debt and equity securities with secured and unsecured bank financings
• Representation of borrowers and lenders in all aspects of working capital financing transactions, including accounts receivable, inventory lending transactions and factoring transactions and the issuance of related true sale opinion letters
• Finance aspects of business mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings and divestitures
• Representation of financial institutions and borrowers in interest rate swap transactions and investment agreements
• International and domestic project finance for projects ranging from a major international infrastructure to manufacturing facilities
• International trade finance and letter of credit transactions, including credit transactions with EXIMBANK, PEFCO and other credit enhancement
• Construction loans (including construction-permanent one-close loans for ultimate securitization) for office buildings, shopping centers and malls, hotels and multifamily complexes
• Representation of servicers in connection with the securitization of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other real estate loan portfolios
• Representation of loan servicers in loan assumptions, loan modifications, loan closings, loan servicing, loan workouts and a variety of consent issues
• Loan portfolio sales and purchases of real estate debt and equity

News

• Craig Lynch Receives 2013 Citizen Lawyer Award
  April 23, 2013
• Lawyers Weekly Features Interview with Sidney Evering
  'Health of our judicial system' depends on diversity
  April 15, 2013
• ACC Publication Features Article by Dick Unger
  Easements in Today’s World
  April 1, 2013
• Dick Unger Appointed to Executive Committee of Charleston County Bar Association
  March 20, 2013
• Sidney Evering Receives Diversity Award from USC Law School
  March 13, 2013
• Sidney Evering Named to Columbia’s 20 Under 40 for 2013
  February 19, 2013
• Michael Juby Named to Charlotte’s 40 Under 40 for 2013
  January 31, 2013
• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Chambers USA 2012 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 7, 2012
• Dick Unger Reelected to SC Bar House of Delegates
  May 1, 2012
• Parker Poe Names Six New Partners
  January 3, 2012
• Julie Seidenstein Receives Woman Extraordinaire Award
  December 6, 2011
• U.S. News & World Report Names Parker Poe Top-Tier Law Firm for 2012
  Firm Ranked #1 in 33 Legal Areas
  November 1, 2011
• Chambers USA 2011 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 10, 2011
• German American Chamber Elects Sam Moses to Board
  May 11, 2011
• Parker Poe Adds Partner to Banking Practice in South Carolina
  September 23, 2010
• Parker Poe Adds Attorney to Charlotte Banking Practice
  September 20, 2010
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Lynch Receives National MS Society's Highest Honor
  August 14, 2010
• Chambers USA 2010 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 11, 2010
• Chambers USA 2009 Recognizes Parker Poe As Leading Law Firm
  June 12, 2009
• Parker Poe Attorney First to be LEED Accredited in South Carolina
  July 2, 2008
• Chambers USA 2008 Recognizes Parker Poe Among America's Leading Lawyers
  June 16, 2008
• Parker Poe Grows Resort, Hospitality and Planned Development Practice with the Addition of Richard M. Unger
  March 7, 2008
• Chambers USA 2007 Recognizes Parker Poe Among America's Leading Lawyers
  June 26, 2007
• Parker Poe Expands Public Finance and Governmental Practice in Columbia
  January 31, 2007
• Attorneys Join Parker Poe's Charleston Office
  September 1, 2006
• Parker Poe Names New Partners
  January 20, 2006
• Seventeen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 20, 2006
• Parker Poe Attorneys Among The Best Lawyers in America
  September 13, 2005
• Parker Poe Attorneys Honored as The Best Lawyers in America and the "Legal Elite" in North Carolina
  February 28, 2005
• Announcing Parker Poe's 2004 Fall Associates and Special Counsel
  November 4, 2004
• Five Parker Poe Attorneys and Five Practice Areas have been Included in the Chambers USA: Guide to American's Leading Business Lawyers
  June 3, 2004
• John Anderson, Chip Holmes, Ray Jones and Scott Leo Have Become Partners in the Firm
  January 12, 2004