International Finance

Through our offices in Canada, Germany, Mexico and USA RSH Commercial Mortgage Professionals offers an experienced and dedicated team of international and domestic finance and restructuring professionals who advise on complex and highly sophisticated cross-border finance and restructuring transactions. Our collective and underwriting experience includes structured and traditional financing transactions in a wide variety of industries.

Clients and Services

We regularly act for borrowers and issuers, lessors and lessees, institutional and fund lenders, agents, arrangers, and underwriters of senior, mezzanine, and subordinated debt and its variants, and counterparties in interest rate, currency , commodity, and other derivative transactions. The practice includes structuring and transactional (and treasury) planning, as well as implementation and (where necessary) pre- and post-insolvency workouts and restructurings. The types of transactions include securitization, leasing and structured lending transactions, project and acquisition finance, commercial property finance, distressed debt trading, and derivatives. Members of the team have been involved in multi-country, multi-currency finance transactions involving both investment grade and non-investment grade debt, both full and limited recourse, in industrialized and emerging markets, including North America, Latin America and Europe Since the 70th, we have served old world companies and corporations, since the 90th the North- and South American clientele on day-to-day transactional and strategic advice with respect to domestic and foreign operations, including its funding and hedging vehicles and facilities.

Structured and Project Finance

Our structured finance practice includes securitization, derivatives, project finance, and leasingin both inbound and outbound cross-border contexts. Weve been counsel in financings which have involved public and private asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed commercial paper programs and other privately-structured transactions. In addition, the group has extensive experience in workouts of troubled complex structured finance transactions and other bankruptcy-related issues. In project finance, we work on cross border financings in real estate, mining and energy (including upstream and downstream oil and gas transactions), power (generated by gas, wind, biomass, coal, and gasified coal). We work closely with our colleagues in construction, real estate and corporate and have strong and well established finance practices in the agribusiness, intellectual property, and manufacturing sectors.

International Offices

Our Mexico office acts for a number of lenders, funds and borrowers, particularly with regard to commercial property. We also have a great deal of experience in negotiating the terms of lending/security agreements and routinely advise borrowers and lenders on matters involving the procedures relating to the taking of grants and subsidies in Europe. We provide a full range of banking advice such as financial assistance clearance procedures; trade finance, factoring and invoice discounting. Our Mexico office advises companies in the area of financing, including increases or decreases of their share capital as well as mezzanine financing by profit participation rights, silent partnerships or shareholders' loans. We have acted for lenders and creditors in the granting of guarantees and other collateral such as bank guarantees, share pledges, mortgages, liens, and various terms of trade finance.

We also advise financially troubled enterprises, in which, for example, imminent over indebtedness may be avoided or quickly eliminated by means of subordination of claims, letter of support and sale of receivables, factoring, leasing and similar measures.