Robert K. Sahyan

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Commercial and Asset-Based Financing

• Refinancing of $1 billion syndicated revolving credit facility secured by aviation assets.
• $25 million revolving credit facility to a producer of alcoholic beverages, secured by account receivables, equipment, inventory and intellectual property.
• $20 million revolving credit facility to a technology startup operating a software and analytics platform in the agricultural industry.
• $12 million revolving loan secured by personal property, including inventory and intellectual property, of affiliated companies in the home goods space.
• Refinancing of credit facility secured by artwork.
• Acquisition of a portfolio of loans secured by fractional interests in various resorts located in the U.S. and Mexico.
• Refinancing of revolving credit facility secured by receivables from the sale of timeshare interests in resorts in San Diego, California.

Mortgage and Construction Loans

• $105 million mortgage loan secured by commercial property in California, Washington and Colorado.
• $40 million acquisition financing of a branded hotel located in San Diego, California.
• $33 million refinancing of hotels located in Philadelphia and Georgia.
• $30 million refinancing secured by office building in Pasadena, California.
• $12 million construction loan for the development of apartment building in San Francisco, California.
• $5 million loan secured by a hunt club facility, lodge and personal property.
• Represented lender in various loans for acquisition/rehabilitation of apartment buildings.

Chapter 11 Cases

• Debtor Representation includes: Club One Casino (casino), Old PXPRT, Inc., fka PopExpert (e-learning),Vail Lake Rancho California, LLC, et al. (real estate and resort), Easy Life Furniture, Inc. (furniture chain), Peak Broadcasting, LLC, et al (radio broadcasting company), MMFX Technologies Corporation, et al. (producer of nanotechnology steel), The Billing Resource dba Integretel (billing aggregator) (Northern District of California), Humboldt Creamery, LLC (a dairy producer) Diablo Grande Limited Partnership (real estate Developer)
• Creditors and Equity Committee Representation includes: Metawise Group, Inc. (shipping company), Siliken Manufacturing, Inc. and Siliken USA, Inc. (solar energy company), Meridian Sports Clubs California, LLC et al., (operator of fitness clubs in California, Hawaii and Nevada), Doyle D. Heaton and Mary K. Heaton (real estate developer), Tvia, Inc. (semiconductor publicly-traded company)

Other Representations

• Represented lender and agent in sale of $30 million tranche of $127 million loan.
• Represented an international express mail service provider in the defense against a $17.5 million preference claim and in the successful settlement of the action.
• Represented bank in adversary case alleging harm from failure to foreclose and obtained dismissal.
• Represented lender in the sale of a portfolio of real estate lots in a bulk sale transaction, following representation of seller as lender acquiring the portfolio in deed in lieu of foreclosure transaction.
• Defended a provider of electronic transaction processing services against motion for sanctions for automatic stay violation related to debt collection.

State Bar of California

Bar Association of San Francisco

Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum

American Bankruptcy Institute, Advisory Board, Southwest Bankruptcy Conference (2016, 2017, and 2018)

Panelist, Ethics Roundtable, American Bankruptcy Institute, 24th Annual Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, September 2016

• The Myth of the Zone of Insolvency, Production Resources Group v. NCT Group, Hastings Business Law Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2006)