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Tim Griffin

Partner
t: 704.342.5251 f: 704.342.5264

Tim represents financial institutions, other creditors and investors in corporate finance and middle market investment transactions.

Biography

Tim represents banks, non-bank lenders and investors throughout the southeastern United States in corporate and commercial finance arrangements including term and revolving facilities, asset-based lending, and receivables financing, construction financing, and in restructuring classified credits. Tim has experience with respect to these matters as both in-house legal counsel for a super-regional bank and in private practice representing institutional creditors.

Areas of Focus

+Financial Services

  • Representation of lenders and borrowers in commercial, manufacturing and industrial financing
  • Representation of lenders in commercial real estate finance transactions, including acquisition, development and construction financing of industrial, healthcare, multi-family, mixed-use, office, and low income housing tax credit projects
  • Representation of investors/lenders in subordinated and mezzanine debt financings
  • Representation of lenders in financing to knowledge-based, venture and private equity backed companies
  • Representation of lenders in complex, multi-tiered intercreditor arrangements
  • Representation of debtors, agents and lenders in club deals and syndicated loan facilities
  • Representation of purchasers and sellers in loan participations
  • Representation of lenders in capital/equity funding lines of credit
  • Representation of financial institutions in control agreements, lockbox agreements, letter of credit, documentary credits, and other banking products
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+Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy

  • Representation of lenders in forbearance, restructure and workout of distressed and classified assets
  • Representation of financial institutions in portfolio asset dispositions and servicing arrangements
  • Representation of lenders in negotiated liquidation arrangements
  • In-house bankruptcy and problem asset case management for financial institutions
  • Representation of financial institutions in transfer of real estate from distressed borrowers in lieu of foreclosure
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Credentials

+Education

University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1980

University of North Carolina, B.A., 1976

+Notable Accomplishments

Recognized in Business North Carolina Magazine’s “Legal Elite” (Real Estate Law), 2008

Recognized as a Leading Attorney by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Banking & Finance), 2017-2020

+Professional & Community Activities

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Banking Law Institute, Member, Board of Directors 2008 – 2016

RMA Associates, Charlotte

North Carolina Bankers Association, Member

Member, Turnaround Management Association

Member, Finance Committee, United Way of Central Carolinas

+Speaking & Writing

“Perfecting Liens in Atypical Collateral,” 1999, North Carolina Bar Association

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