Practice Areas
Jeff is a partner in the Vorys Cleveland office and vice-chair of the firm's finance practice. Jeff's commercial finance practice focuses on representing administrative agents, lenders and borrowers in a diverse array of lending transactions, with an emphasis on fund finance and bilateral and syndicated middle-market, asset-based and leveraged loan transactions. Jeff’s fund finance experience includes advising banks in structuring, negotiating and documenting a variety of fund-finance loan products, including subscription lines of credit, NAV loans, “umbrella” credit facilities, “fund of one” credit facilities and private-banking loans to high-net-worth investors.
Jeff’s workout and restructuring practice focuses on out-of-court workouts and restructurings, chapter 11 reorganizations and other commercial bankruptcy and creditors’ rights proceedings, with a particular emphasis on representing secured creditors in workouts and bankruptcy proceedings involving asset-based revolving lines of credit.