About

Provided by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

Faegre Drinker’s team of banking and finance attorneys provides clients with strategic, focused and efficient counsel. Leveraging collective decades of experience, we represent lenders and borrowers in structuring and documenting commercial lending transactions, including asset-based and structured financing, debtor-in-possession financing, syndicated loan transactions, and private placements. We advise on lending and regulatory compliance, fiduciary activities, securitizations, electronic banking, payment systems, capital raises and corporate governance matters. We have a long history of advising clients on corporate and debt restructurings and loan workouts — in and out of the courtroom. We counsel secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, purchasers, committees, indenture trustees, investors and contract counterparties on Section 363 sales, workouts, reorganizations and complex bankruptcies, and litigation.

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What the Team is Known For

Faegre Drinker's practitioners provide a wealth of experience across a comprehensive range of transactions, including syndicated lending, mezzanine debt finance and tax-exempt bond offerings. The firm routinely advises prominent private equity firms, banks and portfolio companies, and is also highly esteemed for its work in the healthcare, real estate and energy sectors. It is proficient in negotiating revolving credit facilities. The team has notable sector expertise in nonprofit transactions, with particular expertise in tax-exempt bonds and taxable bond financing.

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Notable Practitioners

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Judith E Reich
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Judith E Reich
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Judith Reich frequently represents banks in complex lending transactions. She is well respected for advising on acquisition financings.
Eirik Tellefsen
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Eirik Tellefsen
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Eirik Tellefsen advises clients across a range of transactions, including revolving credit facilities, investments and financing. He routinely acts in domestic and multijurisdictional financings.

Eirik is very good, and very thorough.

Kaili Janus
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Kaili Janus
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Kaili Janus has notable experience of representing banks as administrative agents across a range of transactions. She also routinely advises borrowers on acquisition financing matters.

Kaili is highly skilled in banking law and practice. She has amassed a knowledge bank well beyond her years of practice. She's always available and always sharp.

Kaili is highly responsive, provides sound guidance for complicated structures, and is a valued counsel on credit facilities

Ranked Lawyers at
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Judith E Reich
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Judith E Reich
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Eirik Tellefsen
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Eirik Tellefsen
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Kaili Janus
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Kaili Janus
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Band 2

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