Debt Finance Associate

• The role requires experience representing arrangers, agents, lenders, and borrowers in syndicated or bilateral credit facilities, including secured term loans, cash flow and asset-based revolving credit facilities, leveraged acquisitions, first lien, second lien, and unsecured deals.
• Responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of loan documents such as credit/loan agreements, security agreements, guarantees, intercreditor agreements, subordination agreements, promissory notes, fee letters, commitment letters, term sheets, and amendments.
• Candidates should possess familiarity with UCC Article 9 and Article 8 principles, experience negotiating and obtaining third-party deliverables (e.g., control agreements, bailee waivers), and conducting debt finance diligence from both lender and/or borrower perspectives.
• Experience organizing and running complex closing processes is essential, along with experience serving substantial clients, including debt funds, banks, private equity sponsors, or privately held middle market companies.
• For candidates with over 4 years

experience, familiarity with drafting and negotiating legal opinions and opinion diligence is expected.

• The ideal candidate will have experience with a varied scope of secured lending transactions, primarily in the middle market, but also potentially involving smaller venture stage debt financing, large investment-grade financings, cross-border work, project finance, restructuring and workout, and first lien/second lien/mezz structures across diverse industries.
• The firm's national Debt Finance team handles sophisticated, cutting-edge finance deals across multiple industry sectors and collaborates with partners and colleagues across various offices and practices.