Carter Ledyard’s Corporate Department lawyers provide comprehensive, sophisticated, and highly effective counsel to clients across a range of business transactions with a keen understanding of the nuances of these deals, and close collaboration with our industry sector specialists.
Our Services:
- Mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and JVs
- Securities offerings and regulatory compliance
- Lending and debt issuances
- Public finance
- Corporate trusts
- Investments
- Corporate structuring
- Family office and closely-held company corporate needs
- Distressed debt and financial claims trading;
- Broker/dealer and investment management matters;
- Institutional lending and related compliance and structuring matters;
- Corporate organizational and governance matters;
- Commercial contracts of all kinds, including manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements, franchising agreements, employment, and consulting agreements and licensing and other intellectual property agreements;
- Annual, quarterly, periodic and other SEC filings and corporate governance advice and compliance
- Compliance with a range of regulatory statutes including CARES Act, CFIUS, and the FCPA
Clients retain and refer us for the diverse array of skills we bring to our practice, including the ability to “read the room” around the negotiation table to anticipate and respond to strategic moves, advance clients’ interests and get deals done. Our team brings extensive experience and an excellent reputation to transactions of all sizes and complexities, collaborating with our colleagues across legal disciplines.
From our offices in the heart of New York’s financial district, our team enjoys a long and distinguished track record of assisting regional and national companies on a range of corporate issues. We serve our international clients with their U.S. matters and our U.S. clients with their global matters. We help organizations navigate cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures and handle issues involving capital markets, debt, regulatory requirements, and related topics. Our lawyers maintain particularly long-standing relationships with companies based in Canada, Israel, Turkey, the United Kingdom and we also provide legal guidance to organizations located in Australia, Ireland, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, and Norway. Several lawyers are fluent in languages such as Hebrew, Turkish, and Mandarin.
Additionally, we assist our clients in overcoming the difficulties – including the cross-cultural challenges that often arise – of entering and conducting business in the U.S. market. With 25 years of experience serving sovereign nation Native American tribes and those doing business with them, we advise on transactional, lending, and other corporate matters in this arena.
Our mid-range size positions us to provide public and private companies and their advisors with high-quality legal services without the costly inefficiencies and redundancies that often accompany large-firm representations. We prefer to assign experienced partners to matters, enabling the execution of sound strategies that get the job done right the first time. By using targeted teams and efficient, flexible staffing, we attain optimal outcomes for clients at an exceptional value.
Representative Experience
CRX Intermodal Bermuda Ltd., a Seaco subsidiary, the refinancing of a $912M warehouse credit facility, involving a multi-lender syndicate and ING Bank N.V. as administrative agent.
Citizens Bank in a Catawba Nation $1 billion Casino and Resort Complex in Kings Mountain, NC
Citizens Bank in a $390 million loan transaction for the River Rock Entertainment Authority of the Dry Creek Rancheria in California.
Trinity Biotech in a series of transaction agreements with Perceptive Advisors, which includes an additional term-loan funding.
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd.: in a merger agreement with Matrix IT Ltd., becoming a subsidiary. The merger will result in one of the 31 largest Israeli companies on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and one of the largest IT companies in the world. It is the biggest merger in the IT market in Israel’s history.
Craft Capital Management LLC in connection with the IPO of Smart Logistics Global Limited, a Hong Kong-based business-to-business contract logistics solution provider.
TAT Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: TATT), in a public offering of 4,150,000 ordinary shares priced at $26.00 per share. TAT raised approximately $42.3 million before expenses.
Global SC Finance X Ltd. in a structured note offering to qualified institutional buyers and other eligible investors of $500,000,000 in principal amount of its Series 2025-1 Notes.
Tamarack Valley Energy in a $325 Million Private Placement of Senior Unsecured Notes
Cloud Peak in a debt-for-debt private exchange offer. The transaction enabled Cloud Peak to repay its retail investors in full and to extend by two years the period during which it can sell selected assets in order to pay interest and principal to its institutional investors.
Seaco SRL for more than a decade, Carter Ledyard has represented Seaco SRL, one of the world’s largest marine shipping container leasing companies. The recent work the firm has done includes:
- In 2025, the refinancing of a $1.7 billion facility with a syndicate of banks.
- In 2025, $500 million financing of the residual cash flows from earlier financings.
- In 2024 completed the refinancing of a $912 million facility with a syndicate of banks.
- In 2022 completed a term loan agreement with PNC Bank, National Association as Administrative Agent and PNC Capital Markets LLC as Structuring Agent.
- In February 2022, completed a series of seven transactions across more than $5 billion in debt facilities, covering seven different financing structures, requiring consents, disclosures, and filings in multiple international jurisdictions.
- In 2020 and 2021, handled securitizations of more than $2.6 billion in containers and related assets in offerings of medium-term notes to institutional investors in the Rule 144A market, and amended and refinanced over $2.4 billion in bank facilities, as well handling as general corporate matters incident to the financings, such as amendments across all the debt facilities addressing ownership restructuring.
- In September 2021, completed a refinancing of an existing series of revolving asset backed notes, increasing in the aggregate principal amount to $1.365 billion.
Pinnacle Food Group Limited, a hydroponic farming company, in its initial public offering on NASDAQ.
Maple Leaf Foods in its the spin-off of its world leading pork division to form a new public company, Canada Packers Inc.
Moreld AS in the refinancing of the company’s debt, including the successful redemption in full of its subsidiary Aurora Group’s outstanding USD $225 million senior secured notes due 2029, a financing Carter Ledyard had initially handled in 2024.