Commercial Finance

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David Kirchblum Named a Distinguished Adviser in Debt Financing by Financier Worldwide

David Kirchblum, co-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Commercial Finance Practice, has been named a Distinguished Adviser in Debt Financing in Financier Worldwide’s 2025 Power Players report.

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Cozen O’Connor’s Commercial Finance Group represents a variety of clients in a broad range of financial transactions throughout the debt markets. We routinely advise borrowers, lenders, and other market participants on structuring and executing complex commercial financing transactions and have particular experience in the middle market. Our commercial finance attorneys advise on domestic and cross-border transactions, including:

  • Acquisition financings (leveraged and investment grade)
  • Asset-based financings
  • Aviation leasing and financings
  • Bridge financings (leveraged and investment grade)
  • Debt issuances (investment grade and high yield)
  • Commercial lending (including working capital lines, letter of credit facilities, and warehouse lines)
  • Lease financings
  • Mezzanine financings
  • Project financings
  • Structured financings
  • Syndicated financings (including Term B credit facilities)
  • Workouts, restructuring, debtor-in-possession, and exit financings
  • Real estate financings

Our commercial finance client base includes corporate borrowers (public and closely held companies), individuals, direct lenders, private equity sponsors, funds, and non-traditional lenders. We have assisted clients in a wide range of industry sectors, including, among others, aviation, energy, entertainment, cannabis, construction, health care, hospitality and restaurant, life sciences, real estate, retail, senior and assisted living, technology, and transportation.

Additionally, our Commercial Finance group works together with various practice groups throughout the firm on a myriad of specific issues (including environmental, ERISA, FCPA, intellectual property, labor, real estate, and tax) that customarily arise on sophisticated financing transactions to provide our clients with optimum deal execution.  

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Experience

Represented Potters Industries, LLC, a manufacturer of glass beads for reflective road and runway markings, in its $43 million new market tax credit financing for the development of a manufacturing facility.


Represented PurpleLab, Inc., a health care analytics provider, in its $40 million senior credit facility secured by a lien on all of its assets.


Represented a mobile device, charging, and security company in connection with a senior secured loan facility.


Represented a manufacturer in its $23 million upsize to its term loan and revolving credit facility.


Represented a manufacturer of performance materials in connection with its $18 million New Market Tax Credit financing for the expansion of a manufacturing facility.


Represented a senior living real estate management firm in its negotiation of a senior credit facility which was used to acquire an Illinois-based nursing home. 


Represented Feenix Venture Partners, an investment firm that partners with consumer-facing businesses raising growth capital, in its $25 million senior term credit facility secured by all the borrowers and its subsidiaries’ assets.


Represented Feenix Venture Partners, a debt fund that provides loans to consumer products companies, in its issuance of a $9 million senior secured loan to Carver Road Hospitality, a consultant to restaurant developers and partners. The loan was secured by an all-assets security interest.


Represented a Marshall Islands company in the negotiation of a loan used to finance the acquisition of an equity position in a publicly traded entity listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The cross-border matter included issues involving the laws of the United States, Singapore, Germany, and the Marshall Islands.


Represented Sparks Marketing LLC, a trade show exhibit manufacturer and brand experience company, in connection with a secured credit facility.


Represented the senior secured lender in connection with the refinancing of a $30 million secured term loan to an international company that designs fashion products for women.


Represented the owner/operator of senior care nursing home facilities in a complex transaction through which 20 facilities in Texas were refinanced in a deal consisting of a term loan, a delayed draw, and revolver. This $102 million transaction drew on the experience of the firm's corporate and real estate attorneys.


Publications

State AGs Filling the Void Left by Federal Regulators: What It Means for Banks and Financial Institutions [Dow Jones Risk Journal]

October 02, 2025

Brett Watson contributed an article to Dow Jones Risk Journal, discussing the recent trend of state attorneys general stepping up and bringing their own enforcement actions to cover areas where federal regulators have stepped back.

In The News

David Kirchblum Named a Distinguished Adviser in Debt Financing by Financier Worldwide

October 21, 2025

David Kirchblum, co-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Commercial Finance Practice, has been named a Distinguished Adviser in Debt Financing in Financier Worldwide’s 2025 Power Players report.

David Kirchblum Profiled in Financier Worldwide

October 20, 2025

David Kirchblum is profiled in a Financier Worldwide article that highlights his success in the commercial financing space and shares his outlook for the future of the U.S. leveraged finance market.

Cozen O'Connor's Corporate Practice Selected as a 2024 Best Corporate Practice of the Year Finalist by The American Lawyer

September 05, 2024

Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce that the firm’s Corporate Practice has been selected by The American Lawyer as a 2024 Best Corporate Practice of the Year finalist for 2024.

Nearly 100 Cozen O’Connor Lawyers, 27 Practices Earn Top Recognition in Chambers USA 2024 Guide

June 10, 2024

Chambers USA rankings are based on an “assessment of a firm’s work and opinions from external market sources, with an emphasis on client feedback.” In order to be ranked in the guide, lawyers and firms must demonstrate “sustained excellence.”

Eighty-eight Cozen O’Connor Lawyers, 23 Practices Earn Top Recognition in Chambers USA 2023 Guide

June 05, 2023

Of the 88 lawyers ranked, 17 lawyers have been recognized nationally, and eighteen were recognized in Band 1. Eight of the firm's practice areas have been recognized nationally, and nine were ranked Band 1.

Contacts

Benjamin A. Bomrind

Co-Chair, Commercial Finance

bbomrind@cozen.com

(212) 883-4957

David Kirchblum

Co-Chair, Commercial Finance

dkirchblum@cozen.com

(215) 665-6907

Anne M. Madonia

Member

amadonia@cozen.com

(215) 665-7259

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Awards

Cozen O'Connor's Corporate Practice Selected as a 2024 Best Corporate Practice of the Year Finalist by The American Lawyer

September 05, 2024

Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce that the firm’s Corporate Practice has been selected by The American Lawyer as a 2024 Best Corporate Practice of the Year finalist for 2024.

Nearly 100 Cozen O’Connor Lawyers, 27 Practices Earn Top Recognition in Chambers USA 2024 Guide

June 10, 2024

Chambers USA rankings are based on an “assessment of a firm’s work and opinions from external market sources, with an emphasis on client feedback.” In order to be ranked in the guide, lawyers and firms must demonstrate “sustained excellence.”

Eighty-eight Cozen O’Connor Lawyers, 23 Practices Earn Top Recognition in Chambers USA 2023 Guide

June 05, 2023

Of the 88 lawyers ranked, 17 lawyers have been recognized nationally, and eighteen were recognized in Band 1. Eight of the firm's practice areas have been recognized nationally, and nine were ranked Band 1.

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