Mr. Gluntz assists many clients seeking financing, whether from angel investors, other private equity sources or traditional financing sources, by helping them to fine tune their business strategies as well as, in the case of start-up companies, their actual business plans (including financial projections), and in the process helped helps them to truly understand the underpinnings of their businesses. As part of these engagements, Mr. Gluntz also assists lenders and debtors in completing successful workout strategies that keep the debtors in business and prevent lenders from taking more drastic legal actions. He advises numerous clients (lenders and debtors) on the benefits of workouts, refinancings, liquidations, forebearance agreements and other nonjudicial strategies to avoid the need for costly and time-consuming court restructuring and other legal remedies. When these strategies fail, Mr. Gluntz assists clients in navigating the court system to get necessary results.

In his representation of real estate developers and property managers, Mr. Gluntz has helped create joint ventures with builders that included a developer lending component and has seen these ventures through to either successful completion or failure through loan workout strategies or repossession of the subject properties. In a similar transaction, he represented a national life insurance company in all financing, corporate and tax structuring aspects of joint venturing with a developer to build a corporate campus for the that company.

Some more of Mr. Gluntz’s representative transactions in this area include commercial loan refinancings ranging from $30-$50 million and involving multiple lenders and multiple office buildings, nursing homes and other commercial properties. He has broad capabilities in project finance, the securitization of mortgage loans, real estate portfolios, receivables and other financial instruments.

Finally, where clients do not wish to purchase finance their companies, Mr. Gluntz assists clients in obtaining favorable real property commercial leases in prime locations and equipment leases.