Lynn Loacker joined Heller Ehrman as a shareholder in 1999. She is a member of the Corporate/Venture Law Group and the Capital Markets, Debt Finance, M&A and Structured Finance Practices. Ms. Loacker is a member of the firm’s Policy Committee, Chair of the Promotions Evaluation Committee, and Chair of the Gender Diversity Committee.
Experience
Ms. Loacker has a corporate and structured finance practice, with an emphasis on representation of financial institutions in a variety of matters, including securitization of financial assets, other secondary market mortgage transactions and acquisitions of mortgage banking companies. As part of her finance practice, Ms. Loacker also focuses on project development and finance.
Education
Stanford University (A.B., 1974); Hastings College of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif, 1979)
Admissions & Courts
New York; Washington.
Memberships
New York State Bar Association; Washington State Bar Association; New York City Opera Association (Director and Co-Chair of Strategic Planning Committee, 2005 to present); Seattle Opera Association (Trustee, 1986 to 2005; Board of Advisors, 2005 to present).
Representative Engagements
Project Finance
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Served as lead attorney, representing owner and developer of a cogeneration power project, in connection with project financing and the restructuring of equity investments in the project.
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Served as lead attorney representing Prudential Securities Incorporated in the financing of the American Airlines Arena, a 20,000 seat multi-purpose sports arena for the NBA franchise the Miami Heat.
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Served as lead attorney, representing owner and developer of a cogeneration power project, in connection with a junior subordinated tranche of financing and the restructuring of equity investments in the project.
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Served as lead attorney, representing the developer, in the financing for the development and construction of the Rose Garden Arena, the home of the NBA Trail Blazers.
- Represented developers and investors in a variety of solar energy projects.
Acquisitions
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Represented purchaser in a $425 million stock acquisition of various subsidiaries (located in England, Australia, The Netherlands and the United States) of a U.K. holding company.
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Represented a real estate developer in connection with the sale of a portfolio of eight office buildings in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
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Represented Washington Mutual in connection with the acquisition of the mortgage banking operations of PNC Bank and Fleet Boston Financial Corp.
Private Equity Investments
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Represented institutional investors in numerous equity investments in real estate investment funds (investing in, among other asset classes, manufactured homes, residential housing projects, timberlands and "environmentally impaired" real estate assets), leveraged buy-out and venture capital funds.
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Represented institutional investor in a series of joint ventures with an investor-owned utility to finance the acquisition of hydroelectric projects.
Structured and Corporate Finance
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Has managed a practice team involved in mortgage loan securitization transactions, whole loan purchases and sales, purchases and sales of servicing rights and other secondary market mortgage transactions.
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Acts as issuer's and sponsor's counsel in securitizations of a variety of asset classes, including residential and commercial mortgage and equipment leases.
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Handles a variety of derivative transactions from interest rate swaps and caps to equity collars and prepay forward arrangements.
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Represents borrowers and issuers in a variety of secured and unsecured credit facilities and privately placed and public note offerings.
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Represented U.S. and foreign banks in a variety of transactions, including commercial paper back-up facilities, multi-currency facilities, letter of credit export/import financing, acquisition financing, mortgage warehouse facilities, asset-backed commercial paper programs, and a variety of unsecured and secured revolving and term loan facilities.
