Department profile
Vedder

Banking & Finance

USA Guide 2026 : Illinois


Vedder

About

Provided by Vedder

Our nationally prominent Finance & Transactions attorneys represent borrowers, lenders and mezzanine financiers in a broad array of transactions. Lending clients—including commercial finance companies, banks, trustees, mezzanine lenders, second lien lenders and other institutional lenders—benefit from our experience in structuring and executing a broad base of secured and unsecured loans: asset-based, general commercial, real estate, cashflow, mezzanine, second lien and equipment leasing structures, as well as restructurings. We also represent lenders in loan transactions across the full spectrum of the health care industry, including asset-based, cash-flow and real estate structures involving large hospitals, acute-care hospitals, health care staffing companies, ambulatory surgery centers, MRI and imaging clinics, dialysis clinics, suppliers of durable medical equipment, senior care providers and dental clients.

The Global Transportation Finance team regularly act for financiers and related parties, both domestic and international, in a broad range of transactions, including unsecured and secured financings involving aircraft, railcars, vessels and general equipment. Our team is recognized as a dominant presence in the U.S. aviation finance field, where the firm remains at the forefront of the market. A majority of our work involves cross-border transactions in numerous jurisdictions worldwide, and we routinely represent major banking institutions throughout the world.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Illinois

Band 4

Band 4


What the Team is Known For

Vedder has extensive experience in an array of complex lending transactions, often advising borrower and lender clients on mezzanine, secured and unsecured and asset-based financing. The firm has niche expertise in transportation matters, acting for domestic and international parties to transactions related to aircraft, railcar and vessel financing. Vedder Price also advises lenders on loan transactions concerning the healthcare industry.

Notable practitioners

Michael Nemeroff chairs the firm's finance and transactions group and is a key contact.

Work Highlights

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  • Vedder represented ATLAS SP Partners in connection with the structuring of an acquisition financing and warehouse loan facility for Wafra Inc.'s acquisition of Aquial Air Capital.

Strengths

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  • Vedder is one of the most highly regarded law firms in the transportation finance business. The team has a very pragmatic approach and the attorneys are very responsive and creative.

    Banking & Finance respondentUSA
  • Vedder is the best in Chicago for aircraft leasing.

    Banking & Finance respondentUSA

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