Ken Weinberg represents lenders, lessors, lessees, investors, and other market participants in complex financing arrangements. His experience spans true lease structures, including Fair Market Value (FMV), Terminal Rental Adjustment Clause (TRAC), and First Amendment leases, as well as secured financings, equipment finance agreements, traditional lending transactions, construction and interim financings, vendor finance programs, syndications, portfolio acquisitions, refinancings, and warehouse facilities.
Ken has represented banks, finance companies, and their affiliates in equipment lease and finance portfolio acquisitions exceeding $1 billion, negotiated transportation fleet leasing and financing arrangements, and advised on the sale of beneficial interests in leveraged lease structures involving aircraft and railcar portfolios. He has developed transaction documentation used by several of the nation's largest equipment leasing and finance companies in connection with a wide range of leasing, financing, and syndication transactions.
Additionally, Ken counsels banks and finance companies on equipment leasing and finance regulatory and operational matters, including nationwide compliance, lien perfection, lessor liability, insurance requirements, and the implementation of electronic signature and electronic chattel paper policies and procedures.
Beyond his equipment finance practice, Ken advises lenders, investors, and project developers on U.S. and international energy finance transactions. His experience includes recourse and non-recourse financings and tax-oriented sale-leaseback transactions involving a variety of energy assets, including renewable energy facilities, waste-to-energy projects, solar generation assets, and natural gas-powered plants.
Ken frequently speaks on equipment leasing and finance topics at client programs and industry conferences.