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Gordon Bava is a senior partner of the firm after serving for a decade as its Chief Executive and Managing Partner. Gordon’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, special committee representation, private and underwritten securities offerings and general corporate representation of clients in a variety of industries. Gordon has conducted these services for public entertainment, utility and healthcare companies, local, regional and multinational financial institutions and holding...
Katherine Bell is a partner in the Paul Hastings Global Finance practice. Ms. Bell is based in the firm’s Orange County office. Ms. Bell focuses her practice on commercial and corporate finance transactions. She regularly represents banks, investment banks, finance companies, private debt lenders, other lenders, and borrowers in working capital facilities (cash flow and asset-based), acquisition financings, structured financings, and restructurings and recapitalizations—both cross...
Roland E. Brandel is a Senior Counsel in the San Francisco office of the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster. He is a member of, and served as the first chair of, the firm’s financial services practice group. He has written several books, including The Law of Electronic Fund Transfer Systems , The Community Reinvestment Act , Policies and Compliance , and Truth in Lending: A Comprehensive Guide and numerous articles on financial service topics. He has served as Chair of th...
Robert J. Davidson is a Shareholder in Buchalter Nemer's Bank and Finance Practice Group. He is a past Executive Vice President, past member of the Board of Directors and former Chair of the Firm’s Bank and Finance Practice Group. Mr. Davidson has a broad commercial, transactional practice with an emphasis on the negotiation, structuring and documentation of secured and unsecured financial transactions for major lending institutions and corporate borrowers. His experience includes asset...
Jill Feldman serves as Chair of Morrison & Foerster's Financial Transactions Group and is a member of the firm's Cleantech Steering Committee. Her practice focuses on international and domestic commercial lending, acquisition finance, mezzanine and second lien finance, equipment leasing and project finance. Before joining Morrison & Foerster, Ms. Feldman was a partner in the San Francisco office of Graham & James, where she was the co-chair of its credit and project finance and de...
Henry Fields has represented domestic and international financial institutions for more than 40 years. Mr. Fields advises banks in mergers and acquisitions and capital market activities, as well as private equity firms and other investors in the financial institutions sector. Mr. Fields has also represented numerous international banks on the establishment of branches, agencies, and representative offices in the United States. Mr. Fields provides financial services regulatory advice on a broa...
Joseph Gabai's practice focuses on the representation of banks, savings associations, mortgage banking companies, finance companies, and their holding companies and affiliates. He has special expertise in the regulatory area. Mr. Gabai regularly represents clients facing issues with the Truth In Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Community Reinvestment Act, Electronic Fund Transfer Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Ac...
Kathy Johnstone has broad experience in all aspects of debt financing, and specializes in representing public companies with multiple issues of outstanding debt. She has extensive expertise in acquisition financing, high-yield and investment-grade public debt offerings, and syndicated credit agreements. Ms. Johnstone’s approach to client service is to focus on her clients’ business objectives, and immerse herself in all aspects of an entity’s capital structure. She structure...
Recognized as a market-leading corporate strategist, Moshe Kupietzky provides business entities, entrepreneurs, and innovative companies with legal solutions to accelerate growth. Now focusing on the healthcare industry, Moshe applies his considerable knowledge in the areas of corporate and finance law to advise the lawyers in Nelson Hardiman’s Transactions Group and their clients. He harnesses experience across a broad spectrum of industries to structure complex mergers and acquisition...
Ellen Marshall focuses on business transactions, including capital markets, finance, mergers and acquisitions and securitization. She has practiced banking, corporate and finance law in Los Angeles and Orange County for more than 30 years. Ellen represents businesses in their acquisition and disposition of companies and business units. She represents banks, investment funds and other companies involved in the mortgage, auto finance and other specialty finance business, including such financia...
Dan Passage, Structured Finance Practice Co-Chair, has more than 25 years of experience advising issuers, underwriters, and financial institutions on complex financial transactions, with an emphasis on securitizations and structured finance. He has extensive experience structuring programs for the origination, financing, and securitization of novel asset classes, including Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Bonds, marketplace funded loans, divorce loans, life settlements, premium finance l...
Tom Phelps is a renowned banking attorney who has worked with scores of financial institutions throughout the country. As a founding partner in the firm, he boasts a long and distinguished career serving banking, thrift and nonbank financial institutions. He is active in banking industry groups, including the California Bankers Association, where he previously served on the State Government Relations Committee and the Federal Government Relations Committee. Tom has been a featured speaker at ...
Bill Quicksilver is a senior partner and the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner Emeritus of the firm. He served as the firm's Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner from January 1, 2007, through June 30, 2019. Bill’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital market activities, corporate governance, and strategic advisory services in the financial services industry and in a range of unregulated industries. Bill performs these services for a full range of clien...
Gary B. Rosenbaum counsels clients on all types of finance transactions, including private equity and mezzanine investments, out-of-court debt workouts and restructurings, cross-border lending transactions and venture lending financings. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/rosenbaum-gary-b/
As co-chair of the firm’s national consumer financial services practice , Chuck Washburn navigates the complex web of laws governing consumer financial services. Much of his work revolves around rules issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by the Dodd-Frank Act. In addition to proactively helping clients comply with laws, Chuck negotiates with CFPB staff attorneys and other representatives on behalf of clients who allegedly have violated compliance laws. He also int...
Robert Zadek focuses his practice on matters involving factoring, asset-based lending, purchase order financing, commercial loan documentation, trade finance and letters of credit, loan workouts and bankruptcy. For the past 18 years, Mr. Zadek has been the keynote speaker at the Annual Convention of the International Factoring Association, the largest factoring trade association in the world. Bob has also been a frequent panelist at the Convention. Every year the IFA offers Bob’s two-da...
Warren is a member of the firm's Venture Lending practice, focusing on the representation of lenders and companies in documenting technology, life sciences and middle-market financing transactions, including traditional commercial leveraged debt financings, venture debt financings and bridge loans. Warren has experience in a broad range of transaction debt finance matters, and advises on asset-based and secured cash flow financing transactions, as well as lending against intellectual property...
Dov Goodman is Of Counsel in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Century City office. Mr. Goodman’s practice focuses on the representation of lending institutions, funds, and companies on a variety of commercial finance transactions, including acquisition financings, dividend recapitalizations, working capital facilities, cash flow loans, asset-based lending, bridge loans, special situation lending and refinancings.
Bunnie represents both entrepreneurs and established businesses – including family offices, institutional investors, real estate investment companies and cannabis retailers – in entity formation, governance, and complex corporate and investment transactions. Bunnie counsels early stage growth companies on equity and debt financings including drafting convertible notes and simple agreements for future equity, and private companies on recapitalizations, strategic investments, merger...
Daniel Tola maintains a comprehensive understanding of complex finance transactions and concentrates his practice in commercial finance, utilizing his institutional knowledge to provide his clients with practical counsel on a wide range of financings. In particular, he represents alternative lenders, commercial banks, investment banks, finance companies, equity groups, hedge funds and private companies in US and cross-border working capital facilities (cash flow and asset-based), acquisition ...
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