About

Provided by Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Vorys’ nationally recognized finance group works coast to coast and across offices and practices to lead an array of sophisticated finance transactions, from bilateral middle market deals to complex billion-dollar, multi-currency global syndicated credit facilities.  

We partner with our clients to approach each finance transaction as a team and work seamlessly across practices to draw upon our attorneys’ experience in related fields, such as real estate, tax, environmental, employee benefits, securities, intellectual property, health care and information technology. Dozens of banks and non-bank lenders rely on Vorys finance lawyers to efficiently manage lending transactions. Our lender clients value our practical advice, business sense and collaborative approach.

Our interdisciplinary experience allows our finance attorneys to provide practical, market-based legal counsel to efficiently close transactions.  While a number of our attorneys are licensed and have practiced in New York and other U.S. financial centers, our Midwest roots further position us to deliver customized client service in a cost-effective manner to achieve our clients’ business objectives. 

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Ohio

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What the Team is Known For

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP represents borrowers and lenders in a range of financing transactions, with strength in asset-based lending, structured financing, acquisition finance and derivatives work, among other areas. Also advises financial institutions on matters such as regulatory compliance, banking M&A and securities law compliance.

Work Highlights

  • Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP represented Worthington Steel in an USD550 million ABL in order to finance the spinoff of Worthington Steel from Worthington Industries into its own public company and to finance ongoing working capital.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Hani R Kallas
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Hani R Kallas
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Hani Kallas has attracted a stellar reputation for his abilities in the banking and finance sector. He chairs the firm's finance, energy and real estate groups and acts for an array of lenders on complex financing transactions.

Hani coordinates everything and is very responsive, gets the right team involved in deals and follows up very well on what we do.

Hani is really good to work with. He's practical, very experienced in the area, always responsive and keeps transactions moving.

Nici Workman
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Nici Workman
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Nici Workman combines her knowledge of financing transactions with capabilities in debt capital markets.

Nici is very thorough and went above and beyond in comparison to most other attorneys I've dealt with.

She is excellent, very smart, and retains a wealth of knowledge. She knows our business and our history, and it’s incredible how well she recalls details.

Nici is an excellent attorney and we value her partnership.

Megan Hoelle
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Megan Hoelle
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Megan Hoelle maintains a burgeoning finance practice out of the firm's Cincinnati office and is increasingly sought out by well-known financial institutions.

Megan is a very strong attorney.

Megan has been a tremendous resource for us. She thoroughly and quickly gets through documentation and helps make us look good to our borrowers and their sponsors.

Travis J Wahl
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Travis J Wahl
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Travis Wahl is noted for his detailed knowledge of derivatives transactions, alongside his broader expertise in commercial finance matters. He acts for a wide spectrum of financial institutions and public and private corporate borrowers.

Travis is a great collaborator and really easy to work with. He has great expertise and is very responsive.

Jeffrey Bieszczak
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Jeffrey Bieszczak
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Up and Coming

Jeffrey Bieszczak is recognized as a rising star in the banking and finance sector with particular experience in ABL and fund finance transactions in real estate matters.

He just has a tremendous background and is very good on the documents and analyzing comments from our client or prospect.

Cauley Oliver
Cauley Oliver
Associates to watch

Cauley Oliver is a talented associate with a particular expertise in leveraged finance, private equity acquisitions and ABL transactions.

Her client service is fantastic. She's responsive, business minded, proactive and I find her wonderful to work with.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Banking & Finance

Hani R Kallas
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Hani R Kallas
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Nici Workman
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Nici Workman
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Megan Hoelle
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Megan Hoelle
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Travis J Wahl
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Travis J Wahl
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Band 3
Jeffrey Bieszczak
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Jeffrey Bieszczak
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Up and Coming
Cauley Oliver
Cauley Oliver
Associates to watch

Members

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Bryan Falk

Elia Woyt

Joel Lund

John Weimer

Judy Marsh

Kevin Shea

Megan Hoelle

Nancy Nicole "Nici" Workman

Zachary Brumfield

Industries

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Automobiles & Parts

Banks

Charities / Not for Profit

Construction & Materials

Consumer Product Manufacturing

Energy

Financial Services

Food & Drink Producers

Health Care

Real Estate

Real Estate Finance

Retail

Sports

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