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Martha Anderson is Managing Partner of Nixon Peabody’s Buffalo, New York, office. She is a finance and corporate lawyer with over 25 years of experience representing financial institutions and businesses of all types in connection with leveraged and project finance transactions and mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. She also has extensive experience in professional sports matters involving NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL teams and their stadiums and arenas. What do you focus on? I help finan...
Bill Baldiga is the Managing Director of Brown Rudnick’s Litigation & Restructuring Department, which includes its worldwide bankruptcy practice. He often represents middle market public and private companies in chapter 11 proceedings, official and ad hoc equity and creditor committees and strategic investors in complex reorganization proceedings. He has particular experience in bankruptcy litigation, especially as trial counsel in valuation and plan confirmation contests. Bill is r...
Jennifer Chadwick counsels businesses and their owners in matters involving general corporate, employment, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, financing matters and shareholder and member disputes. Jennifer also counsels financial institutions in commercial loan transactions, creditors’ rights and compliance and regulatory matters. Her goal is to provide clients with enthusiastic, efficient and skilled representation.
Timothy concentrates his practice on commercial real estate acquisitions and sales, commercial real estate financing, commercial real estate development and commercial leasing. He has particular experience in representing institutional, corporate and small business clients in the acquisition, sale, development and financing of commercial real estate projects, including regional shopping centers, hospitals, hotels, strip centers, office parks, school district capital projects, and residential ...
James A. Florack is co-head of Davis Polk's global finance practice and is regularly recognized in legal industry surveys as among the very best finance lawyers in the United States for both domestic and cross-border transactions. He advises clients on a wide range of transactions, including leveraged and investment-grade lending, structured finance and high-yield debt offerings. He represents both financial institutions, including most of the largest banks in the United States, and major cor...
Melissa Hutson is a finance partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Melissa’s practice focuses on syndicated debt facilities, debt commitments and bridge loan financings for leveraged acquisitions by private equity firms, their portfolio companies and public and private companies. She also advises clients on a broad range of other secured lending and financing transactions, including debt restructurings. Melissa advises private e...
Barbara Mendelson is a partner in the Financial Services Group in the New York office. Her practice involves advising foreign and U.S. banks in a variety of complex regulatory matters, including sales and acquisitions of U.S. banking and nonbanking firms, Dodd-Frank Act issues, applications to federal and state bank regulators for expansion of activities and new products, Bank Secrecy Act and OFAC matters and over-the-counter and exchange-based trading of various instruments and derivatives. ...
Chip focuses his practice on real estate financing, corporate financing, commercial real estate sales and acquisitions, leasing, zoning, land use, municipal law and public authorities law. He represents numerous lenders, developers and corporations in such areas as commercial lending, borrowing, real estate development and leasing.
Sara Allawi is an investment funds partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises private equity sponsors and asset managers on the formation, marketing, regulatory compliance and management of private investment products. Sara has counseled private fund sponsors, venture capital companies and hedge fund managers with respect to each stage of a fund's lifecycle as well as represented investors in private funds.
Grace Aviles is of counsel in the Corporate practice at Paul Hastings, based in the New York office. Ms. Aviles focuses her finance practice representing private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and financial institutions in secured and unsecured loan and capital market transactions for both U.S. and internationally based businesses. She has extensive experience representing clients in diverse financing structures, including acquisition financings/ leveraged buyouts, working capital fina...
East Berhane is a corporate partner in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and other private and public companies in connection with a wide range of syndicated loan transactions, leveraged acquisition financings, asset-based lending, debt restructurings, and other debt financing matters.
Eric Brenner is an associate in Nixon Peabody’s Project Finance and Public Finance group, serving a wide variety of clients, including financial institutions, issuers, underwriters, and borrowers on taxable and tax-exempt public finance transactions. My focus I strive to serve my clients with efficient and forward looking strategies in all facets of public finance and project finance with a constant focus on overarching client objectives and needs. I represent a wide variety of clients ...
Clients look to Anna French for counsel on securitization and financing of a wide range of asset classes within the structured finance market. Anna is a partner with the Structured & Warehouse Finance Team. Her clients include public and private borrowers, lenders, sponsors, issuers, investment banks, nonbank direct lenders, underwriters, investors, asset managers, mortgage servicers, rating agencies, and other industry participants. Anna has structured and negotiated securitization trans...
Jordan M. Hook is of counsel in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Mr. Hook’s practice focuses on representing banks and other financial institutions as arrangers, lenders, and underwriters across a broad spectrum of industries. He has extensive experience representing banks, funds, and other financial institutions and issuers in a variety of debt finance transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, bridge loans, ...
Sabine Houben is a Senior Associate in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Sabine's practice focuses on complex finance transactions and credit arrangements involving secured and unsecured loan and capital markets transactions for both U.S. and non-U.S. transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, bank/bridge commitments, first and second lien financings, mezzanine financings, and ABL facilities with a particular expertise in cross-border tr...
Kurt Lyn is a partner in the Austin office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP focusing on mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. He represents buyers, sellers, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, and financial institutions in a variety of corporate transactions including leveraged buyouts and public and private mergers and acquisitions.
Amy's practice involves negotiating and closing all types of commercial real estate transactions involving properties in New York City and throughout the United States. She represents developers, owners, investors, institutional banks, private equity funds, hedge funds and asset managers in matters concerning: acquisitions and dispositions; development; commercial mortgage, bridge, mezzanine and construction financing; distressed debt; joint ventures; and workouts and restructurings. She has ...
Salvatore Perrotto is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Sal Perrotto focuses his practice on a variety of complex finance transactions. He represents agents, lenders, public and private borrowers, business development companies and other providers (bank and nonbank) of senior and subordinated debt financing. Sal also advises clients on a broad range of financing transactions, including first and second lien revolv...
Evan concentrates his practice in real estate and banking. An Associate in Rivkin Radler’s Real Estate, Zoning and Land Use and Banking groups, Evan has extensive experience with all phases of real estate transactions, banking practice and title clearance. Prior to joining Rivkin Radler, Evan worked for a Real Estate Law firm where he represented major institutional lenders, as well as individuals and entities in the purchase, sale and refinance of cooperatives, condominiums, single and...
Sean N. Simensky concentrates his practice on general corporate representation of private national and international companies, not-for-profit corporations, as well as representing financial institutions, private lenders and borrowers in loan transactions. An associate in the Firm’s Banking and Corporate Practice Groups, Sean assists clients with general business matters, including selection and formation of business entities, shareholder and operating agreements, employment and consult...
Nicole Skalla is a partner in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the New York office. Her practice focuses on securitization and structured finance, with a particular emphasis on structured credit products and collateralized loan obligation transactions. Ms. Skalla represents investment banks, financial institutions, investment advisors, issuers, investors, and end-users in collateralized loan obligation transactions, cash, hybrid, and synthetic CDOs, and other as...
Alison L. Weisman Roeper is a partner in the firm’s commercial real estate department. Alison concentrates her practice on representing buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, developers, borrowers and lenders in connection with various real estate and lending transactions. Alison also represents buyers and sellers in connection with the purchase and sale of residential cooperatives, condominiums, houses and multi-family homes.
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