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William Schoenholz is a Shareholder in the Los Angeles office Bank and Finance Group and a member of the Board of Directors. He has extensive experience in complex domestic and international financing transactions, representing banks, commercial finance companies, hedge funds and other institutional investors. He has structured, negotiated, and documented a wide variety of financing arrangements ranging from acquisition financing (including leverage buyouts and the financing of tender offers), bridge financing, and working capital financing. These transactions typically involve multi-facility secured credit arrangements that often include multiple borrowers and cross-border elements. Mr. Schoenholz also has considerable experience representing agents in syndicated and club loan transactions and in negotiating and documenting various inter-creditor arrangements.
In addition to Mr. Schoenholz’s front-end practice, he often represents lenders in workouts and forbearance arrangements. In this connection, he has substantial experience in private and public foreclosure sales under the Uniform Commercial Code and handling issues related to mixed real and personal property collateral. Mr. Schoenholz has co-authored a chapter on workouts under revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as having lectured to clients on the workouts and other aspects of revised Article 9.
Mr. Schoenholz is a 1977 graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his B.A. in Business Economics with High Honors distinction. In 1981, he earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center. Mr. Schoenholz is a member of the Financial Lawyers Conference and the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Schoenholz contributes his time and resources to the community by actively supporting a number of non-profit organizations and charities, including the City of Hope and Inner-City Arts.
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