Lee Adler knows how to bring parties together to achieve a common goal and close the right deal. He works with regional, national and global financial and heavy industry clients, including shipyards, offshore services providers and their investors, directing all phases of transactions to buy, sell, lease, lend and borrow. Clients rely on Lee’s ability to forge constructive business relationships that keep deals moving forward on time and with his client’s priorities top-of-mind.
Lee partners with clients on the full lifecycle of each transaction, including structuring the parties, drafting the terms, and helping them meet contractual obligations long after the deal is done. A seasoned negotiator, he keeps an eye on both the big picture and the details, and how different options affect not just the deal, but the client’s business overall.
Experience
- Counseled borrower for credit facility to provide construction and permanent financing of four tugboats to be chartered to an LNG plant operator.
- Structured multimillion-dollar loan for leading U.S. marine transportation solutions providers to finance construction of the first-ever U.S. flagged, Jones Act-compliant windfarm service operations vessel (SOV).
- Represented leading Gulf Coast shipyard in its $28.6 million acquisition of the shipyard division of a peer company. The deal helped our client expand its new construction and repair capacity to better serve its key defense and commercial customers.
- Counseled borrower for issuance of notes in a private placement to provide construction and permanent financing of 15 vessels and barges to be chartered for tanker escort and related services for the operator of the Alaska Pipeline in Valdez, AK. Further represented affiliated companies for acquisitions of properties.
- Structured a $100 million financing deal for an emerging clean energy startup, and in a separate $90 million credit facility. The deal helped the client improve its service offerings and expand to additional states.