Gerard Martin

Practice Areas

Restructuring & Special Situations

Finance

Banking & Financial Services

Business Aviation

Career

Gerard Martin represents lenders, borrowers, sponsors, and investors in U.S. and international financing transactions. His practice includes cash flow and asset-based loans, leveraged loans, acquisition financings, bridge facilities, recapitalizations, venture loan transactions, structured transactions, and complex intercreditor arrangements, including unitranche and multitranche structures. Gerard regularly advises on cross-border and multicurrency financings and has deep familiarity with the structural and documentary considerations that come with large, syndicated credit facilities.

A significant portion of Gerard’s practice involves financial restructurings and workouts. He represents secured creditors and debtors in restructuring transactions, both in and out-of-court, and advises on debtor-in-possession and exit financings, as well as distressed investing and special situations.

Gerard maintains an active equipment and aviation finance practice. He represents lenders, borrowers, lessors and lessees in equipment and aircraft financings, leveraged leases, project finance, and transfers of loan and lease portfolios. His transactional work extends to financings of aircraft, engines and related assets, vehicles, rolling stock and rail cars, energy production equipment, and various other equipment categories.

Gerard works with clients in many sectors, including, among others, manufacturing, retail, metals, energy, defense, aviation, shipping, finance and lease rental, technology, blockchain and crypto, health care, agriculture, food and beverage, and consumer products.

Concentrations:

Debt financing

Acquisition finance

Intercreditor relationships

Business and debt restructuring and workouts

Bankruptcy

Distressed investing and special situations

Equipment and aviation finance

Professional Memberships

Member, Secured Finance Network (Midwest Chapter)

Personal

Education:

J.D., with Honors, University of Chicago Law School

Member, University of Chicago Law Review

B.A., with Distinction, Yale University