KMO's banking practice serves domestic and foreign banks and other financial institutions in connection with commercial lending, trade finance, regulatory, real estate, litigation and general corporate matters. Commercial lending and trade finance matters include single lender and syndicated facilities involving unsecured, asset-based, highly leveraged and structured facilities.

Illustrative recent matters include:

• Representing a finance company subsidiary of a foreign bank in an insured export receivable purchase and sale agreement.
• Representing a foreign bank and a subsidiary of a foreign bank in standby letter of credit facilities to secure variable rate revenue bonds.
• Representing a finance company in the foreclosure of New York metropolitan area commercial mortgages.
• Representing a foreign bank as agent in a syndicated term loan facility secured by the securities of a publicly-traded Mexican corporation through the use of a Delaware statutory trust.
• Representing a finance company subsidiary of a foreign bank in its capacity as agent in a syndicated term loan facility to a steel manufacturer secured by equipment.
• Representing a national funeral home lender in the financing of the acquisition and construction of funeral homes.
• Representing a foreign bank in the preparation and review of participation agreements.
• Representing a foreign bank in its defense to a claim of wrongful honor of a commercial letter of credit.
• Representing foreign banks in dealings with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
• Representing financing entities for national franchisers in connection with term and construction loans.
• Representing foreign banks in connection with the grant of security interests by U.S. entities securing credits booked in Europe.
• Representing foreign banks in connection with the issuance of letters of credit supporting United Nations approved financing.
• Representing a foreign bank group in structuring credit facilities to borrower groups in South America.
• Assisting law firms in the issuance of third party legal opinions with regard to the acquisition of mortgage loan portfolios, the financing of gas pipeline companies as well as other types of significant secured transactions.