Best Lawyers in New York, United States for Banking and Finance Law

Martha Anderson is Managing Partner of Nixon Peabody’s Buffalo, New York, office. She is a finance and corporate lawyer with over 25 years of experience representing financial institutions and businesses of all types in connection with leveraged and project finance transactions and mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. She also has extensive experience in professional sports matters involving NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL teams and their stadiums and arenas. What do you focus on? I help finan...

Jennifer Chadwick counsels businesses and their owners in matters involving general corporate, employment, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, financing matters and shareholder and member disputes. Jennifer also counsels financial institutions in commercial loan transactions, creditors’ rights and compliance and regulatory matters. Her goal is to provide clients with enthusiastic, efficient and skilled representation.

Ashley Gregory is a corporate partner whose practice focuses on debt financings. She primarily represents public and private corporate borrowers and private equity clients in connection with complex financing transactions, both secured and unsecured, including leveraged acquisition financings, senior and subordinated lending transactions, second lien, mezzanine and asset based financings, debtor-in-possession facilities, workouts and restructurings and other banking and credit matters. Financ...

Melissa Hutson is a finance partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Melissa’s practice focuses on syndicated debt facilities, debt commitments and bridge loan financings for leveraged acquisitions by private equity firms, their portfolio companies and public and private companies. She also advises clients on a broad range of other secured lending and financing transactions, including debt restructurings. Melissa advises private e...

Real Estate Jeanine focuses her practice on representing for-profit and not-for-profit owners and developers in connection with the acquisition, financing, development and disposition of commercial, mixed-use and residential properties, including affordable and supportive housing projects and skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living facilities. Such representation includes all aspects of acquisition, development, construction and financing through the use of tax-exempt bond iss...

Barbara Mendelson is a partner in the Financial Services Group in the New York office. Her practice involves advising foreign and U.S. banks in a variety of complex regulatory matters, including sales and acquisitions of U.S. banking and nonbanking firms, Dodd-Frank Act issues, applications to federal and state bank regulators for expansion of activities and new products, Bank Secrecy Act and OFAC matters and over-the-counter and exchange-based trading of various instruments and derivatives. ...

Sara Allawi is an investment funds partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises private equity sponsors and asset managers on the formation, marketing, regulatory compliance and management of private investment products. Sara has counseled private fund sponsors, venture capital companies and hedge fund managers with respect to each stage of a fund's lifecycle as well as represented investors in private funds.

Grace Aviles is of counsel in the Corporate practice at Paul Hastings, based in the New York office. Ms. Aviles focuses her finance practice representing private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and financial institutions in secured and unsecured loan and capital market transactions for both U.S. and internationally based businesses. She has extensive experience representing clients in diverse financing structures, including acquisition financings/ leveraged buyouts, working capital fina...

Eric Brenner is an associate in Nixon Peabody’s Project Finance and Public Finance group, serving a wide variety of clients, including financial institutions, issuers, underwriters, and borrowers on taxable and tax-exempt public finance transactions. My focus I strive to serve my clients with efficient and forward looking strategies in all facets of public finance and project finance with a constant focus on overarching client objectives and needs. I represent a wide variety of clients ...

Vincent Cesare is a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Global Finance group, primarily focused on counseling clients acting as custodians, as trustees, and in various other agent capacities in connection with matters relating to asset-backed, mortgage-backed, and other types of securitizations. My focus I collaborate with my clients to ensure that the interlocking aspects of structured finance transactions function smoothly during each phase—from warehousing to windup. I work with clients...

Bianca Costa Rodriguez focuses her practice on complex real estate transactions across various asset classes, including multi-tiered debt financings, construction loans, sales, acquisitions, and large scale development projects. Ms. Costa Rodriguez also represents equity investors in connection with the acquisition and development of commercial real estate properties, including the structuring, negotiation and financing for those transactions.

Jordan M. Hook is of counsel in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Mr. Hook’s practice focuses on representing banks and other financial institutions as arrangers, lenders, and underwriters across a broad spectrum of industries. He has extensive experience representing banks, funds, and other financial institutions and issuers in a variety of debt finance transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, bridge loans, ...

Sabine Houben is a Senior Associate in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Sabine's practice focuses on complex finance transactions and credit arrangements involving secured and unsecured loan and capital markets transactions for both U.S. and non-U.S. transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, bank/bridge commitments, first and second lien financings, mezzanine financings, and ABL facilities with a particular expertise in cross-border tr...

Lindsay represents investment banks and other financial institutions in a wide range of asset-backed and warehouse lending transactions.

Mona Kwasnik is a derivatives associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Mona’s practice focuses on advising clients with respect to the negotiation and documentation of OTC derivatives transactions and related regulatory compliance of OTC derivatives transactions and related regulatory compliance.

Joanne Lau is an associate in the Financial Restructuring group of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. She represents hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, large institutional investors, public and private companies, ad hoc committees, official creditor committees and lenders in the structuring, negotiation, financing and implementation of mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, restructurings and workouts, in both in-court and out-of-court transactions.

Amy's practice involves negotiating and closing all types of commercial real estate transactions involving properties in New York City and throughout the United States. She represents developers, owners, investors, institutional banks, private equity funds, hedge funds and asset managers in matters concerning: acquisitions and dispositions; development; commercial mortgage, bridge, mezzanine and construction financing; distressed debt; joint ventures; and workouts and restructurings. She has ...

Neil ODonnell is a founding partner at Legal Scale. His practice primarily focuses on private equity transactions and fund formation. Neil represents investors and emerging-growth companies with early-stage financings, including issuances of SAFEs, warrants, convertible debt and other equity securities. He also provides advice on compliance and corporate governance for his clients. Prior to founding Legal Scale, Neil spent several years raising and deploying debt and equity capital to purchas...