The need for tribes, tribal businesses, and individual members to access capital to provide infrastructure, housing, and economic development is great. Often, conventional forms of financing are not available to tribes. Similarly, there are several types of financing that tribes can participate in that are often under-utilized. The banking and lending industry is a highly technical area that requires current knowledge of the ever-changing regulations and an attention to important details that can make or break a transaction. Our banking and lending experience allows us to anticipate the complexities of each transaction and provide appropriate guidance toward meeting the client's needs.
We have acted as lawyers and advisers in shaping the financial transactions as well as negotiating its structure, terms, warranties, and guarantees. The financing transactions in which we have participated are both asset-based and credit or cash-flow based, secured and unsecured, credit-enhanced, syndicated, bonded, and any combination of the above. The size of our transactions ranges from relatively few dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars. We treat them all with the same sense of care and importance. These transactions will sometimes include sales and leasebacks, securitized loans, and other less conventional forms of borrowing. We have considerable experience to bring to bear on creative solutions to borrowing issues and have extensive contacts in the lending community.
We also represented underwriters in bringing to market the first publicly traded Indian governmental bond financing in the United States, and we have represented tribes and tribal entities in private-placement financings for casinos, tribal governmental projects, and other tribal economic-development projects.
