Corporate Trust: General Representation

Perkins Coie's Business practice includes a select group of experienced attorneys who specialize in representing corporate trust companies and the corporate trust departments of major banking institutions in domestic and cross-border debt capital market transactions. These transactions include unsecured and secured indentures for corporate and municipal debt, escrow, custody and agency agreements, secured project financings, and asset-backed transactions, and involve companies and projects located in the United States, Canada, Europe, and various emerging markets throughout Latin America and Asia.

We offer our clients advice regarding their roles as indenture trustee, successor trustee, paying agent, escrow agent, owner trustee, registrar and transfer agent, investment agent, collateral agent, custodian, voting trustee, dissemination agent, tender agent, fiscal agent and independent director or manager for special purpose vehicles. We also advise our clients on issues related to establishing and maintaining Delaware statutory trusts, common law trusts, liquidating trusts, insurance trusts and master trusts. Additionally, our general corporate trust attorneys frequently consult with and support our restructuring and bankruptcy attorneys while representing our corporate trust clients in default administration and bankruptcy matters.

With such an intense amount of knowledge and focus, our corporate trust attorneys can respond to requests and inquiries of underwriters’ and issuers’ counsel in a thorough, accurate and timely manner, while also handling unique financing and workout issues confronted by trustees with skill and confidence. This results in efficient negotiations and smooth closings on behalf of our clients.