Asset-Based Finance
Akin’s asset-based finance team works with private credit and other investors in structuring complex asset-based transactions and executing both traditional and bespoke asset-based financings and securitizations. We take a holistic view of an investor’s strategy and transactional objectives to help clients pursue opportunities and manage downside risk in the rapidly growing ABF and structured credit space. Additionally, we advise originators and issuers in accessing private capital in the growing ABF market.
Akin brings a unique perspective to asset-based finance, grounded in our long history in the credit and broader investment management universe. Our team has extensive experience advising market participants in launching asset-based origination and securitization platforms, including joint ventures, and structuring bankruptcy remote transactions. We combine deep market knowledge with extensive experience across asset types to help clients originate, acquire, finance, and divest assets in ways that optimize capital structures, access new funding sources and effectively manage risk.
As part of Akin’s integrated capital solutions team, we take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Akin’s capabilities in fund finance, special situations, investment management and private equity, as well as deep sector experience in energy & infrastructure, including data centers and other digital infrastructure, health care, entertainment and sports, telecommunications, aviation and among other industries. We work collaboratively to address structuring, regulatory, tax and governance considerations in complex structures.
We work closely with our market-leading financial restructuring practice to navigate structured finance considerations in the bankruptcy and distressed context.
Broad Experience Across Asset Classes
Our lawyers have advised on transactions involving consumer, commercial, infrastructure and hard assets and esoteric asset classes, including:
- Airplanes
- Auto floorplan financing
- Auto loans and leases
- Buy now pay later/point of sale loans
- Consumer solar
- Credit card receivables
- Data centers
- Equipment financing
- Fleet leases
- Insurance premiums
- Marketplace loans
- Music royalties
- Oil & gas assets
- Pharmaceutical royalties
- Small business loans
- Solar infrastructure
- Student loans
- Supply chain finance
- Trade receivables
- Unsecured consumer loans.
Our team also has significant experience with CLOs, CFOs, rated structures, joint ventures, forward flow and portfolio acquisition programs, hybrid facilities, and cross-border transactions. We represent clients through every stage of the asset-based lending lifecycle, from structuring, documentation and negotiation through refinancings, restructurings and bankruptcies.
