Brophy, Joseph A.

LOUIS L. BROUDY heads the Firm's Asset-Based Lending and Structured Finance Group. Mr. Broudy has over forty years of experience in asset-based lending and commercial finance, general corporate and securities law, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and all aspects of real estate law, including the acquisition, development, construction, finance, leasing and sale of commercial, industrial and residential properties. Mr. Broudy's experience is broad based, ranging from being General Counsel of two NYSE Fortune 500 companies to being outside counsel to hedge funds and other privately-held investment concerns including commercial finance and factoring companies.

Mr. Broudy graduated from Cornell University in 1960 and received his J.D. degree in 1963 from the University of Virginia School of Law. He received his Masters in real estate law in 1965 from the Brooklyn Law School. Mr. Broudy was for many years a director and past president of the homeowners' association where he lived in Connecticut as well as a member of the Board of Governors of the Norwalk (Connecticut) Symphony Orchestra Society.

Mr. Broudy has represented both lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of secured and unsecured loan transactions, including working capital loans, commercial equipment leasing, bridge loans, acquisition financing, accounts receivable and purchase order financing and accounts receivable factoring. His expertise specifically includes the structuring of loans and other financial asset origination programs for financial services and commercial lending companies and investment funds through traditional and creative means. Over the past few years, he and the members of his practice group have closed or been directly involved in loan and other financing transactions totaling more than one quarter of a billion dollars.

Mr. Broudy's real estate lending practice is national in scope, and has involved complex loan transactions with multiple lenders and real estate collateral located in a variety of jurisdictions. For example, one $50 million loan transaction involved the simultaneous sale and leaseback of 22 separate parcels of real estate located in 19 different jurisdictions. His real estate experience includes the purchase, sale, financing and leasing of commercial and industrial properties, and the purchase and sale of residential apartments and apartment buildings.

With respect to corporate and business law matters, Mr. Broudy has represented large publicly-traded corporations as well as start-ups in all aspects of their legal needs. He provides legal advice to corporate clients at all stages of their existence and development, beginning with  their formation, continuing with raising equity and debt financing, both through registered public offerings and private placements, and finally concluding with their sale.

Mr. Broudy is actively involved in the creation of clients' basic contractual documents, such as sales, supply, distribution, employment and severance agreements and other agreements, and further advises clients on estate planning.