Equipment Leasing & Finance

Miles & Stockbridge represent operating lessors, financial institutions, and corporate and municipal clients in all types of equipment leasing and finance transactions.

We also work to establish lease-origination joint venture programs in which each entity draws on the other's financial and operational experience and leverages such strengths to broaden and diversify its lease portfolio.

Our lawyers regularly handle complex, multimillion-dollar financings (including syndicated transactions involving multiple lenders and equipment located in multiple jurisdictions) and middle-market transactions with single lenders/lessors and borrowers/lessees.

Our team maintains a sound reputation for adept management of complex transactions involving multiple funding sources and difficult tax issues, as well as less complex middle-market deals. We draw on the firm's full resources to develop creative, cost-effective and comprehensive approaches to our client's equipment financing needs.

Railroad equipment finance is an area of particular strength, as our lawyers annually close over $100 million in the aggregate of sales and purchases of large single investor and leveraged lease portfolios, as well as triple net, per diem and full service financings that include true and finance leases of a wide range of railcar equipment.