"Ross is a strong advocate for clients, offering excellent guidance and service. He excels at handling complex matters." - Benesch Client, Chambers USA
Ross focuses his practice on representing banks, financial institutions, borrowers (including profit and not-for-profit) and investors in connection with commercial lending and finance transactions.
He has considerable commercial lending and finance transaction experience handling loan documentation, modification, maintenance and administrative, as well as workouts and recapitalizations in a wide range of complex financing structures, including health care lending, letters of credit and bond financings, syndications, asset-based lending, secured party sales, debtor-in-possession financing, venture capital transactions and other leveraged buy-out transactions.
Representative Experience
- Represented a private equity buyer in its acquisition of a provider of consulting, staffing and compliance services for higher education institutions.
- Representation of a national lending institution in connection with modifications to syndicated credit facility to a cleaning and sanitizing products manufacturer, including a new $161 million equipment finance facility.
- Representation of a manufacturing company of baking and household kitchen utensils in refinancing to new senior asset based lending facility and customer factoring financings.
- Representation of a national lending institution in connection with $100 million tax exempt bond revolving liquidity facility to a major hospital system, including implementing the facility into a master trust indenture structure and handling of various intercreditor issues.
- Representation of National Bank in connection with a $50 million asset based revolving credit facility to a coal producer involving a split collateral deal with crossing first and second liens.
- Representation of mezzanine lender in connection with mezzanine financing and equity co-investment to the company in the emergency home renovation market in order to provide funds to add on acquisition.
- Represent a private equity fund in asset based lending refinancing of a platform company in the technical consumer products space.
- Representation of a national bank in connection with $75 million financing to enable spin off of a minerals and gems company from a larger international conglomerate.
- Represented borrower in an amendment to its credit facility to add an incremental term loan for purposes of financing an acquisition of a distributor of customizable shoe inserts and antimicrobial shoe insert cushions.
- Representation of a senior lender in connection with $100 million syndicated credit facility to a nursing home owner and operator.
