Lynn J. Loacker

Managing Director, Project W

I am passionate about helping women entrepreneurs build great companies that deliver outsized outcomes.

Lynn Loacker focuses her practice on business and finance transactions. Her finance experience covers a range of key finance disciplines: structured finance, project finance (both in the energy and sports industries), acquisition finance, asset-based lending and corporate credit transactions. She also handles mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and a variety of other structured investment transactions and joint venture arrangements. She represents financial institutions, as well as companies in the mortgage banking, energy, forest products and home building and information technology sectors.

Lynn's featured experience includes:

Structured Finance

Represents issuers, sponsors and underwriters in connection with the purchase, sale and servicing of financial assets, including commercial and residential mortgage loans, mortgage servicing rights and equipment leases.
Represents lenders and borrowers in warehousing and other financing arrangements.

Project Finance

Represented the underwriter in the financing of the American Airlines Arena, a 20,000-seat multi-purpose sports arena for the NBA Miami Heat.
Represented the owner in the financing for the development and construction of the Rose Garden Arena, the home of the NBA Trail Blazers (Portland, Ore.).

Mergers & Acquisitions

Represented Washington Mutual Bank in the acquisition of the mortgage banking operations of PNC Bank and Fleet Boston Financial Corp.
Represented a privately held company in the acquisition of the U.K. and Australian subsidiaries of a U.K. public company.

Private Equity & Investment Transactions

Represented Plum Creek Timber Company, L.P., in a $1.5 billion joint venture with The Campbell Group.
Represented the developer in $100 million tax equity joint venture financing for solar power projects.
Represented an investor in a potential $25 million investment in a tax equity joint venture to finance solar power projects.

Acquisition of business for private equity-backed company

Represented a privately held company in the acquisition of a travel club business from a public company.

Acquisition of business for privately held company*

Represented a privately held company in the acquisition of the U.K. and Australian subsidiaries of a U.K. public company.

Debt refinancing for privately held company

Represented a privately held company in the restructuring of approximately $1.5 billion of senior debt consisting of senior notes and domestic and European credit facilities.

Financing of acquisition for Rovi Corporation*

Represented Rovi Corporation (formerly Macrovision Solutions Corporation) in the financing of the acquisition of Gemstar TV Guide International through a syndicated bank facility and Rule 144 offering of senior notes.

Financing of sports arena for arena owner*

Represented the owner in the financing for the development and construction of the Rose Garden Arena, the home of the NBA Trail Blazers (Portland, Ore.).

*Denotes an attorney's experience prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine

Admitted to Practice

New York
Washington

Education

J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), 1979
- Order of the Coif
A.B., Stanford University, 1974

Memberships & Affiliations

- Advisor, BRAVA Investments, 2017-present
- Member, Council of National Advisors, Springboard Enterprises, 2017-present
- Director and Assistant Treasurer, Santa Fe Opera, 2016-present
- Director and Vice-Chair, Beth Morrison Projects, 2016-present
- Director, New York Tech Alliance, 2014-present
- Member, Board of Trustees, All-Star Orchestra, 2013-2017
- Member, Board of Governors, City Center for Music and Drama, Inc., Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 2009-2013
- Director and Co-Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, New York City Opera Company, 2005-2013

Professional Recognition

- Named to "New York Trailblazers" inaugural list, New York Law Journal, 2019
- Received the inaugural "The Edward J. Davis Diversity & Mentorship Award," Davis Wright Tremaine, 2017
- Selected to “New York Super Lawyers” in Securities & Corporate Finance, Thomson Reuters, 2003-2006, 2010

Background

- Member, Executive Committee, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, 2013-2016
- Shareholder, Heller Ehrman LLP, New York, N.Y., 1999-2008 – Leadership positions included: Member, Policy Committee, 2008; Member and Chair, Promotion Evaluation Committee, 2005-2008; Chair, Gender Diversity Committee, 2007-2008; Chair, Nominations Committee, 2005-2006