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Beth Peng Lyden

Associate

New York, NY
156 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
P 212.237.1072 F 212.262.1215
 P 212.237.1072 F 212.262.1215
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Experience

Beth Peng Lyden's practice focuses on corporate finance. Represent and advise lenders and borrowers in connection with asset based loans, cash flow loans, acquisition financings, mezzanine loans, real estate loans and mortgage loan warehouse financings. These financings have included single bank transactions, large syndicated credit facilities, cross-border and multicurrency transactions, workouts and loan restructurings; often acting as primary attorney engaging with clients and opposing counsel.

Prior to Windels Marx, Beth was an associate in the Chicago, IL office of a midsize commercial law firm, as well as a boutique commercial and real estate finance firm in Armonk, NY. During law school, Beth served as an intern for the New York State Department of Financial Services and for the New York State Attorney General's Office.

Representative Matters of Note

  • Drafted and negotiated nonconsolidation and true sale opinions and New York loan opinions.* 
  • Represented various institutional lenders in all aspects of structuring, negotiating and documenting of middle market and assetbased lending transactions ranging from $1 million to $600 million (primary attorney). Sample transactions include*:
    • Counsel to senior lender in $115 million mortgage loan for the restoration and rehabilitation of a historic building for use as a mixed used research facility and office space.
    • Counsel to administrative agent in $575 million multicurrency senior secured revolving credit facility to debt purchaser group.
  • Represented a national commercial bank in connection with multiple mortgage warehouse lending facilities in the aggregate amount exceeding $1 billion (primary attorney).* 
  • Researched and drafted eNote White Paper for a national commercial bank, advised client’s warehouse lending group during its transition to accept electronically executed mortgage assets and revised such group’s master form loan documents in connection thereto.* 
  • Represented corporate borrowers in various M&A financing transactions, including cross-border transactions, single lender and syndicated facilities.* 
  • Represented a commercial lender in structuring and documentation of a $30 million revolving credit facility (primary attorney).* 
  • Represented various financial institutions in all aspects of structuring, documenting, negotiating, and closing middle market commercial and mortgage loans, in the approximate aggregate amount of $130 million ($50 million as primary).* 
  • Represented an institutional lender in a single transaction involving the assumption, modification, and restructuring of nine facilities to a not-for-profit corporation to be used for programs funded by a NY State agency.* 

* Reflects experience at a prior law firm. 

Recognition

  • Named to Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch" - Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law (2023 and 2024)

Memberships 

  • New York State Bar Association

Practices

Education

  • B.A., Dean's Scholar, New York University College of Arts and Sciences, 2009
  • J.D., Dean's Scholar, University of Michigan Law School, 2012

Admissions

  • Illinois (2015)
  • New York (2013)