Robert J Lewis
USA Guide 2023
Band 4 : Banking & Finance
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BOB LEWIS is head of the firm’s Chicago Global Finance practice. Bob focuses his practice on representing clients in the global financial services industry. This work includes advising a cross-section of businesses, from commercial banks and investment banks to investment funds and multinational corporations. A member of the Global Finance and Capital Markets teams, Bob assists with structuring, negotiating and administering syndicated financings, structured finance transactions, corporate restructurings and workouts, in a variety of industries and sectors. He has addressed a wide range of legal issues in his practice, including those pertaining to commercial, bankruptcy and tax and corporate, trust and securities laws.
Bob has also participated in the negotiation and structuring of cross-border financing and other international corporate transactions for more than 15 years, involving institutions in the United States, Canada, China, Europe and Japan. His broad leveraged finance and structured finance background has enabled him to assist clients in a variety of complex financing structures, including sustainability-linked and ESG-linked financings, leveraged-ESOPs, DIP financings, leveraged recapitalizations, spinoffs, LBOs and MBOs, and an array of diverse asset types, among them corporate service contracts, motor vehicle leases, and structured settlement and lottery cash flows and payment streams.