Richard S. Perelman is a partner in the Business and Finance Department and a member of the Transactional Finance, Tax Credits, and Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Capital Recovery Groups, and the Distressed Real Estate Initiative. Mr. Perelman's practice focuses on representing financial institutions and borrowers in a wide variety of financing transactions, including secured and unsecured revolving credit facilities, term loans, asset-based loans, acquisition financing, and second-lien and mezzanine loans, including special purpose joint venture financing.
Mr. Perelman also has extensive experience representing financial institutions in debt restructurings, workouts, and bankruptcy, as well as purchasers of assets from companies in bankruptcy. He has been active in counseling parties about uniform commercial code and potential creditors' rights/bankruptcy implications in lending, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactions. He is also active in the bankruptcy/Uniform Commercial Code aspects of securitization transactions and is a member of the firm's Opinion Committee, focusing on lending, UCC, and creditors' rights issues.