Robert Gillison

Practice Areas

Commercial Finance

Career

Robert Gillison works closely with lenders and borrowers, providing invaluable guidance in the structuring, negotiation, and management of their financing transactions.

Robert is an experienced commercial lending and corporate finance attorney. As the head of our Commercial Finance practice, he oversees our most complex lending deals. He mostly works with regional and national banks, and non-bank lenders, on broadly syndicated loans and middle-market debt financings.

His practice covers a wide range of industries, including aviation, manufacturing, retail, finance, food and beverage, energy, and technology, and primarily involves acquisition and working capital credit facilities. He also has considerable experience with asset-based lending facilities, capital call and subscription loans, warehouse lines of credit, and securities-based borrowings.

Robert represents clients on many types of inter-creditor arrangements, including first-lien/second-lien, mezzanine, and unitranche structures, and has significant experience advising clients on liability management transactions, encompassing both drop-down or uptiering structures.

He also handles multi-national financings. Whether they involve the assets of a foreign debtor within the U.S. or those of U.S. debtors aboard, Robert works closely with foreign counsel in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, and Australia to properly structure and secure cross-board loans.