· Significant experience with financing transactions of all sorts, representing both lenders and borrowers across a broad range of industries in complex financing and commercial finance matters.
· 10+ years of substantive experience. This includes expertise in asset-based and cash-flow lending transactions, loan participations, multi-lender or multi-tranche lending transactions, permanent and bridge loans, and structuring and negotiating co-lender, subordination, and intercreditor arrangements.
· Extensive experience preparing opinions and advising clients on strategic considerations for secured transactions is essential.
· Although not required, the ideal candidate will also have substantial experience representing private lenders and other non-institutional lenders in complex lending transactions. The attorney must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written) and an ability to work collaboratively with internal and external clients at all levels.
· The ideal candidate would also have experience with venture debt transactions and convertible debt transactions (both secured and unsecured) for venture-backed companies.
· Candidates must be currently licensed in Illinois or Colorado, or licensed in another state with a UBE score that qualifies in Illinois or Colorado for comity, be eligible to waive in, or be willing to sit for an upcoming IL or CO bar exam (open to relocation candidates that meet these requirements).
· Portable book of business required.