Since 1978, Paul Bent has personally participated in structuring, negotiating, and closing more than US$2.5 billion in leases and corporate financings.  Both as an investment banker and as a transaction attorney, he has advised and represented clients throughout the United States and internationally in analyzing transactions, developing financing plans and structures, negotiating terms and agreements, and carrying out both due diligence and post-closing activities.

In the course of his professional practice, he has participated in financings involving as many as 15 parties, with structures ranging from simple to highly complex, throughout the U.S., in Europe, and in the Far East.

Business transactions in which Paul Bent has played a direct and active role have included:

Secured borrowings and credit facilities involving multiple collateral assets and diverse credits.

Single-investor and leveraged leases of equipment, facilities, and capital assets.

Domestic, cross-border, and income tax-oriented sale/leasebacks.

Power plant, infrastructure, and non-credit based project financings.

Business acquisitions, sales, and recapitalizations.

Real estate acquisitions, financings, and sale/leasebacks.

Motor vehicle financings and fleet acquisitions and dispositions.

As a resolution professional, Paul Bent has arbitrated and mediated hundreds of disputes across a wide variety of business matters involving:

Equipment leases, secured loans, asset-based financing, collateralized lending, revolving credit agreements, loan and security agreements, and credit obligations.

Bankruptcies, breaches and defaults, workouts, recapitalizations, and restructurings.

Copyrights, licensing and franchise agreements, intellectual property rights and infringements, technology development and applications, and computer software rights.

Real estate purchases and sales, real property developments, common interest associations and homeowners' rights, brokerage agreements and commissions, and allocation of escrow proceeds.

Statutory and contractual interpretation, business formations and dissolutions, partnership disputes, and corporate governance issues.

The detailed knowledge and experience he has accrued in nearly 30 years as an investment banker and transaction attorney, combined with over 7 years of professional experience as an arbitrator and mediator, uniquely enable Paul Bent to sort through complex business and financial matters and to assist parties and their counsel with creative and lasting business problem resolutions.

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