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				B. Troy

B. Troy Villa

Partner in Baton Rouge

Troy Villa is a partner at Breazeale Sachse. He has extensive experience in numerous areas of business transactions, financing and advisory services.

Tax Credit Financing and Economic Incentives

Troy represents clients in various capacities in tax credit financing and investment transactions involving New Markets Tax Credits and historic rehabilitation tax credits and with projects involving state and local economic incentives and Public-Private Partnerships (“P3”).

  • Historic Tax Credits (“HTC”)
  • New Markets Tax Credits ("NMTC")
  • Leverage and bridge loan financing associated with HTC and NMTC financing
  • Industrial Tax Exemptions, Payments-in-Lieu-of-Tax (“PILOT”)
  • Cooperative Endeavors involving P3 projects
  • Opportunity Zone Investments

Financing

Troy has represented clients for many years in traditional and non-traditional financing transactions, including:

  • Asset-based lending
  • Development and Construction Loans
  • Mezzanine financing
  • Private Equity Investments (Investors and Issuers)
  • Venture Capital

Mergers & Acquisitions

He also represents business clients and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of business transactions involving the purchase and sale of businesses. He has extensive experience in the structuring and negotiation of terms related to these types of transactions, and the drafting of related contracts and agreements. He has advised clients with respect to both domestic and international transactions.

  • Purchase and Sale of Privately-Held Businesses
  • Mergers
  • Consolidations
  • Reorganizations
  • Leveraged-buyouts and restructuring

Admissions

  • Admitted to practice: 1990, Louisiana State Courts, Eastern, Middle & Western Districts of Louisiana.

Education

  • Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D., 1990 (Louisiana Law Review, Senior Editor)
  • Nicholls State University, B.S., 1986

Memberships & Activities

  • Former Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic School Board (Director)
  • Former Academic Distinction Fund (Treasurer, Board of Directors)
  • Gulf Coast Housing Partnership (Board of Directors)
  • Education's Next Horizon (Board of Directors)
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • American Red Cross - Louisiana Capital Area Chapter (Board of Directors: 2008 and previously, 1998-2006, Chairman 2002-2003)
  • Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association (LIDEA), Board of Directors
  • Institute for Professionals in Tax (IPT)
  • Baton Rouge Bar Association
  • Louisiana State Bar Association

Awards & Recognition

  • Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® (Since 2009)
  • Selected Lawyer of the Year, in Mergers and Acquisition Law in Baton Rouge by The Best Lawyers in America® 2013, 2015, 2019
  • AV® PreeminentTM Peer Review Rated.

Resources

Cases

  • Represented financial buyer of industrial service company operating in Louisiana and Texas in $13 million buy-out.

  • Represented operator of cellular telephone network in Louisiana to national cellular carrier in $36 million transaction, which included various ancillary aspects for transition.
  • Represented seller of oil-field equipment business to global energy equipment manufacturer in $12 million transaction.
  • Represented owners of alternative fuels producer in sale of refinery to public company in $24 million transaction.
  • Represented owners of telecommunications business in South Louisiana in various financing transactions in excess of $40 million and ultimately in sale of business to private equity fund in $100 million transaction, including participation in obtaining regulatory approvals and/or letters of non-opposition from the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
  • Represented telecommunications business in South Louisiana in leveraged buyout of co-owner in $86 million transaction, including participation in obtaining regulatory approvals and/or letters of non-opposition from the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
  • Represented joint venture partner in sale of interest in national chemical business and assets to other joint venture partner in $85 million transaction.