Charbel Lahoud

Charbel F. Lahoud is a partner in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Areas of Practice

Charbel focuses his practice on representing lead arrangers, lenders, sponsors and borrowers in a wide range of debt transactions across a variety of industries. He has structured and negotiated a broad range of financing transactions including broadly syndicated, investment grade credit facilities to public companies; term b loans; first lien/second lien facilities; club syndicated credit facilities; bilateral financing transactions; credit facilities for furniture, fixtures and equipment; bridge loan transactions; acquisitions financings; and a variety of warehouse lending credit facilities. With respect to industry focus, Charbel has extensive experience with financing of tribal and corporate hotel and casino projects, mortgage companies, food and beverage companies, entertainment companies and healthcare companies. He also has extensive experience representing mortgage lending clients in connection with warehouse lines of credit.

Experience

Representative Transaction

• Represented Bank of America, N.A., as the lead bank and administrative agent in connection with $725 million syndicated credit facilities to a supermarket chain. The credit facilities included a revolving line and term A and term B loans.
• Represented RadNet, a publicly traded leading provider of diagnostic imaging services, in connection with $1.15 billion syndicated credit facilities, including a $875 million term B loan and $282 million senior secured revolving credit facility.
• Represented Bank of America, N.A., as the lead bank and administrative agent in a $1 billion financing to a southern California Native American Tribe for the financing of its hotel and casino operations.
• Represented Bank of America, N.A., as the lead bank and administrative agent in a $280 million financing to a casino company in connection with financing its hotel and gaming operations. The credit facilities included $250 million term loans and a $30 million revolving line.
• Represented Comerica Bank, as the lead bank and administrative agent in a $250 million financing to a casino company in connection with financing its construction of hotel and gaming operations. The credit facilities included $235 million delayed draw term loans and a $15 million revolving line.
• Represented Comerica Bank, as the lead bank and administrative agent in a $210 million financing to a card club in connection with financing its hotel and gaming operations and the acquisition of another card club.
• Represented U.S. Bank National Association in connection with $130 million credit facility to aerospace company.
• Represented Bank of America, N.A., in connection with $160 million credit facility to national fast food chain.
• Represented Bank of America, N.A., in connection with $200 million syndicated credit facility to provider of business outsourcing solutions.
• Represented Bank of America, N.A., as the lead bank and administrative agent in a $225 million financing to a southern California Native American Tribe for the financing of its hotel and casino operations.
• Represented talent agency in a $155 million syndicated credit facilities led by Truist Bank.
• Represented a California bank in connection with $30 million term loan to hamburger chain in connection with its IPO.
• Represented national bank in connection with $27 million term and revolving credit facilities to brewery to refinance existing debt.
• Represented national bank in connection $19 million term and revolving credit facilities to music instrument company in connection with acquisition of assets.
• Represented national bank in connection with $13 million revolving credit facilities to cheese manufacturer.
• Represented health care family of companies in connection with $10 million term and revolving credit facilities.
• Represented lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with construction and working capital facilities to the Kalispel Tribe.
• Represented lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with term and revolving credit facilities to the Valley View Casino & Hotel.
• Represented lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with construction and working capital facilities to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.
• Represented lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with senior credit facilities to the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa.
• Represented administrative agent and lender in connection with a FF&E facility to ROC Finance LLC for its casinos in Cincinnati and Cleveland.
• Represented lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with credit facilities to the Harlow’s Casino, Resort & Hotel (Mississippi).
• Represented lead bank in connection with a FF&E facility to Bossier Casino Venture for the construction and equipping of the Margaritaville Resort Casino in Bossier City, Louisiana.
• Represented lender in connection with senior credit facilities to the Edgewater Hotel and Casino and the Colorado Belle Hotel and Casino (Laughlin, Nevada).
• Represented various mortgage lenders in connection with credit facilities secured by mortgage servicing rights.
• Represented various mortgage lenders in connection with mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreements.
• Representation of national bank, as agent for a syndicate of lenders, in connection with term and revolving credit facilities to an Indian Tribe for the refinancing of existing debt and development of a casino project.
• Representation of national bank, as agent for a syndicate of lenders, in connection with several term and revolving credit facilities to a family of companies for the development and financing of wineries and associated projects.
• Representation of national financial institution, as agent for a syndicate of lenders, in connection with first and second lien term and revolving credit facilities for the acquisition of two casinos and related property.
• Representation of a NASDAQ technology company in connection with credit facilities for the acquisition of related company.
• Representation of lender in connection with a portfolio of asset-based loans to a variety of borrowers.

Honors

Leading Native American Law Lawyer, Chambers USA, 2013-2017

Articles

Corporate & Securities Law Blog Posts

• "Some Strings Attached: Main Street Lending Program And Private Company M&A," July 13, 2020

• "Interplay of Main Street Lending Program Documents (the Rights and Role of the Main Street SPV)," July 7, 2020

• "Fed Provides Further Updates to Main Street Lending Program, Expanding Availability in Advance of Program Launch," June 10, 2020

• "Fed Updates Main Street Loan Program," May 2, 2020

• "Sheppard Submits Comments to Main Street Loan Program," April 17, 2020
• "Sheppard Submits Comments to Main Street Loan Program," April 17, 2020