Ariel A. Berrios is a Shareholder in the firm’s Commercial Finance Practice Group in Los Angeles. He has extensive experience in the areas of banking, bankruptcy, and commercial law. Mr. Berrios represents clients in a variety of industries including national and international lending and financial institutions, domestic and international technology-based companies, food retailers, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing companies.

Mr. Berrios has extensive experience in the areas of asset-based lending, cash flow lending, cross-border financing transactions, factoring, acquisition financing, bridge financing, cannabis lending, rediscount/warehouse lending, and real estate financing. In addition, Mr. Berrios works on senior secured debt, second lien, mezzanine and unsecured/unsubordinated debt. Mr. Berrios’ practice also includes expertise in forbearance situations, workouts, repossessions and foreclosures, as well as 363 sales. He also advises clients on general corporate transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and various forms of financing.

Mr. Berrios is co-author of “Second Lien Financing and Workouts,” Business Workouts Manual, Chapter 30.

He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.