Anthony Callobre is a co-chair of the firm’s Banking and Leveraged Finance Group. Tony practices in the areas of commercial lending and corporate finance. His clients include commercial banks, commercial finance companies, hedge funds, private equity groups, business development companies, small business investment companies, and other institutional investors and lenders. Tony practices across a broad spectrum of the commercial and industrial sector and has considerable experience in asset-based lending, entertainment finance and letters of credit. His practice includes: single-lender and syndicated senior-secured, second-lien, “mezzanine” and unsecured acquisition and working capital loans; cross-border lending transactions; loan portfolio purchases, sales and liquidations; problem loan workouts and restructurings; foreclosures; 363 sales; and debtor-in-possession financings. In addition to representing credit providers, Tony represents the firm’s corporate clients as borrowers in debt financing transactions.
- Represented Bank of America as administrative agent for the C$50 million syndicated secured working capital credit facility for Alliance Films Holdings Inc.
- Represented Comerica Bank as administrative agent for the $130 million syndicated secured working capital credit facility for affiliates of Nu Image
- Represented Bank of America as the syndication agent and U.S. collateral agent for the C$80 million syndicated secured acquisition and working capital credit facilities for Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.
- Represented Bank of America as the administrative agent in connection with a $600 million syndicated unsecured working capital credit facility for AECOM Technology Corporation
- Represented US Bank as the administrative agent in connection with the $115 million syndicated cross-border asset-based credit facilities for Master-Halco Inc. and its affiliates
- Represented Union Bank as the administrative agent with respect to a $300 million syndicated secured working capital revolving credit facility for Parsons Corporation
- Represented Bank of America Business Capital as the administrative agent in connection with syndicated secured acquisition and working capital revolving and term credit facilities totaling $172 million for Bumble Bee Seafoods LLC and its affiliates
- Represented Bank of America Business Capital as the administrative agent in connection with the $125 million syndicated cross-border asset-based credit facilities in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for Admiralty Island Fisheries Inc., dba Aqua Star
- Represented Helinet Aviation in obtaining a $50 million asset-based credit facility from JPMorgan Chase Bank
- Represented Wells Fargo Business Credit in connection with a $75 million secured working capital revolving credit facility for the Good Guys!
- Chapter co-author, “Loan Financing,” CEB Treatise on Financing California Business (CEB, 2002)
- Co-author, “Working Capital Financing in the New Economy: Current Legal Issues and the Need for Federal Legislative Reform,” Business Law News (State Bar of Calif., 2001)
- Panelist, Commercial Lending Today, ALL-ABA (2009)
- Panelist, Annual Survey of Letter of Credit Law and Practice, Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (2009)
- Panelist, Recent Developments in Second-Lien Financing, Joint Program of Commercial Finance Association and Commercial Financial Services Committee, Section on Business Law, American Bar Association (2007)
- Moderator, Negotiating the Not-So-Silent Second, Financial Lawyers Conference, Los Angeles, Calif. (Nov. 3, 2005)
- Moderator, Second-Lien Financing: Negotiating the Silent Second, Annual Meeting of Business Law Section, American Bar Association, Chicago, Ill. (Aug. 6, 2005)
- Leading lawyer in banking law, The Best Lawyers in America (2009–2010)
- Leading lawyer in banking & finance (California), Chambers USA (2009)
- Leading lawyer in banking law, The Best Lawyers in Southern California (2009)
- Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers Inc.
- Chair, Subcommittee on Letters of Credit, Uniform Commercial Code Committee, Section on Business Law, American Bar Association
- Past Chair, Subcommittee on Syndications and Lender Relations, Commercial Financial Services Committee, Section on Business Law, American Bar Association
- Past Co-Vice Chair, Uniform Commercial Code Committee, Business Law Section, State Bar of California
- American Bar Association Task Force on Model Intercreditor Agreement for Second-Lien Financing Transactions
- Financial Lawyers Conference
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankrupty Section
- Active in Commercial Finance Association and Commercial Finance Conference of California
- Admitted to practice in California
- Boston University School of Law, Master of Laws, 1986
- Boston University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1985
- Brown University, Artis Baccalaureate, 1982