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Mike Holden's practice focuses on domestic and international transactions involving debt financing. He represents senior and mezzanine lenders, and funds and corporations that are borrowers, in structuring, negotiating and documenting complex secured and unsecured financing transactions, which frequently involve asset or equity acquisitions. He counsels dealers and end-users with respect to derivatives, and has represented financial institutions, originators and trustees in connection with securitizations. He also represents creditors in work-out and restructuring matters as well as bankruptcies.
Mike's work at Faegre & Benson has included service in the following roles:
Agent's counsel in structuring and negotiating a $500 million secured credit facility for a major airline; agent's and lender's counsel in other secured and unsecured senior revolving and term facilities
Agent's and lender's counsel in mezzanine loans to manufacturing and other companies, including transactions with contingent interest, warrants, and similar components
Lender's counsel in Export-Import Bank transactions
Counsel for private equity fund in negotiating with senior and mezzanine lenders to facilitate equity and asset acquisitions and dispositions
Borrower's counsel for an $80 million secured facility to finance a retail center in the People's Republic of China
Borrower's counsel in other financing transactions, including a $700 million facility to acquire a telecommunications company and $70 million of senior and subordinated loans to a major retailer
Representation of a public company in negotiating a litigation settlement that included a $60 million secured loan
Counsel for issuer in secured letter-of-credit facilities
Representation of bank customers, including a major retailer, in negotiating other banking services arrangements
Representation of dealers and end-users in negotiating terms governing derivatives, including interest rate, foreign exchange and securities repurchase transactions
Mike acquired a broad range of experience in structured finance, public and private debt and equity, and workouts as an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City.
As a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Civil Division, Mike also has extensive litigation experience at the bankruptcy, district court and appellate levels, including representing the Internal Revenue Service in bankruptcy and other matters.
Mike's additional public sector and international experience includes serving as an associate legal officer at the United Nations and serving as a lecturer in law at the University of Zambia under a development initiative involving Cornell Law School.
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