Our Finance Group represents major banks, financial institutions, and our corporate and individual clients, in their roles as lenders, borrowers, and guarantors, in banking and financing transactions.
We serve a wide variety of clients, ranging from international banks, to local Hawai‘i banks, to individual lenders and borrowers.
Cades Schutte has a strong understanding of the local and national finance market. Since 1922 we have helped clients navigate the lending and borrowing process by providing creative solutions, unmatched local market insight, and by leveraging local relationships and skill in advising debt transactions.
What We Do
- Commercial and Real Estate Loans
- Syndications and Participations
- Mezzanine Financing
- Affordable Housing and Tax Credit Loans
Commercial and Real Estate Loans
We draft and negotiate loan documentation for all types of loans, including construction loans, term loans, revolving line of credit loans, corporate loans, residential loans, intercompany loans, mezzanine loans, workouts, participation agreements, agency agreements, and other complex loan documentation. We advise our clients in negotiating and amending such loan documentation, while offering guidance in initiating, structuring, and closing such transactions.
Equipment Leasing
We prepare equipment leases, agreements, and disclosures for our leasing clients and review such documents for our clients who enter into such transactions.
- Represented lenders and borrowers in connection with condominium, subdivision, hotel, shopping center, office, and industrial purchase money, bridge, construction, and permanent financing.
- Represented lenders and borrowers in connection with corporate, purchase and sale, merger, acquisition, and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) financing.
- Represented borrowers and guarantors in connection with securitized financing for hotel and shopping center financing.
- Represented lenders in connection with mezzanine financing for multiple condominium developments.
- Represented lenders and borrowers in connection with State of Hawai‘i affordable housing and revenue bond financing.
- Represented consortium of lenders in A/B construction and permanent loan financing for a major condominium complex.
- Represented lenders in connection with national corporate and real estate financings.
- Represented lenders in connection with solar, wind, and energy loans.
Chair(s)
Cary S. Matsushige
Senior Counsel
Attorneys
Ellen R. Ashford
Associate
Lisa D. Ayabe
Partner
David F.E. Banks
Partner
Gabriel F. Gorman
Of Counsel
Ryan M. Hamaguchi
Partner
Christopher T. Harrison
Partner
Michele S. Loudermilk
Partner
John R. Love
Partner
Chris S. Mashiba
Partner
Colin O. Miwa
Senior Counsel
William K. Morrison
Associate
Craig I. Nakanishi
Partner
Nathan T. Okubo
Partner
Peter W. Olson
Senior Counsel
Reyn S. P. Ono
Associate
W. Davis Prendergast
Associate
Summer G. Shelverton
Partner
Justin M. Sugiyama
Partner
Gail M. Tamashiro
Senior Counsel
Emily K. Tanaka
Associate
Andrea K. Ushijima
Partner
Lori K. Wilke
Partner
Nathan C. Yang
Partner
Theodore D.C. Young
Partner