Susan R. Goldfarb is special finance counsel in the Corporate Department. Her practice focuses on representing lenders and borrowers with regard to personal property secured transactions, structured finance transactions, commercial law transactions and real estate finance transactions. Susan has extensive experience in structuring transactions that require bankruptcy remote special purpose entities.
Susan has significant experience drafting and negotiating financing documents for secured and unsecured loans, receivables financing, syndicated loans, loan modifications, restructuring transactions, equipment finance loan documents, loan assumptions and lease assumptions. In addition, she routinely drafts and negotiates enforceability, non-consolidation, true sale and other reasoned legal opinions.
Susan’s pro bono work primarily involves assisting not-for-profit organizations obtain federal and state tax-exempt status. She has obtained tax exempt status for companies that provide maternal health care and operate a pre-school and primary school in Uganda, conduct medical missions in Myanmar, operate a summer camp for LGBTQ youth, and provide services, resources and support to teenage mothers.
Education
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Georgia State University, J.D.
cum laude
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, M.A.
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University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
With Honors
Admissions & Qualifications
- California
Memberships
American Bar Association (Business Law Section)
California State Bar Association (Business Law and Real Property Law Sections)
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section)
Matters
Representative matters include:
- Issuer representation of Crecera Americas, LLC in connection with issuance of $111 million of secured notes pursuant to an insured trade receivables securitization
- Issuer representation of TSG Entertainment Finance LLC of $350 million of senior secured notes to finance movie production
- Multiple structured financings for SolarCity Corporation
- Lender representation in multiple financing transactions secured by privately held securities
- Refinancing of $600 million senior secured debt for IO Data Centers, LLC and affiliates
- $415 million first lien and $160 million second lien loans for National Veterinary Associates
- Restructuring and refinancing of $68 million of mezzanine debt and $215 million of secured debt for companies that owned and operated over 90 golf courses
- $115 million receivables financing for Church & Dwight Co., Inc.