Equipment Leasing

Buchalter represents lessors, secured lenders and funding participants in the full range of legal issues that arise in equipment leasing transactions, litigation, and syndications. Our clients include captive and independent financing companies. The firm’s expertise cuts across small, middle, and large ticket transactions. Our equipment leasing team provides comprehensive legal advice and creative solutions to assist our clients in meeting their business goals.

Our Firm has structured, documented and closed leasing transactions in a myriad of industries, including aviation, computer and software, construction, maritime, medical, motor vehicles, plant and project facilities, rail, rolling stock, and transportation fleets. Buchalter’s expertise in equipment leasing includes:

  • Preparing standard form lease documents
  • Structuring and documenting of transactions
  • Sale and leaseback transactions
  • Synthetic lease transactions
  • International leasing
  • Lease securitization, including bankruptcy remote and special purpose vehicles
  • Federal, state, and local tax counsel
  • Lease enforcement
  • Guarantees, letter of credit, bonds, and other credit enhancements
  • All aspects of discounting relationships and assignments
  • End of term advice, recommendations, and enforcement
  • Negotiating and documenting warehouse lines of credit and assignment/purchase agreements between an equipment leasing company and lender

Should a dispute arise, our equipment leasing attorneys also have extensive experience handling litigation and alternative dispute resolution in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Our Firm has a wide range of equipment leasing litigation experience representing lessors in matters including floor plan and vendor finance issues. In addition, Buchalter’s expertise includes:

  • Workout agreements
  • Arbitration, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution procedures
  • Commercial and consumer litigation
  • Collection litigation
  • Prejudgment remedies, including claim and delivery (replevin) and writs of attachments
  • Postjudgment remedies
  • Bankruptcy representation
  • Multi-state and international enforcement of judgments
  • Fraud investigation and enforcement
  • Litigation defense and preventive advice
  • Enforcement of end of term rights and remedies