Affiliations

• Director, The Rilcher Hamilton Corporation
• Director, Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation
• Director, Leslie Shankman School Corporation, operating The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago and Hyde Park Day School
• American Heart Association – Chicago Heart Walk Board
• Association for Corporate Growth
• Speeches: 4th Annual M&A and Economics Outlook Symposium sponsored by PrivateBank, Mesirow Financial and Seyfarth Shaw
• American Bar Association
• Illinois Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association

Representative Engagements

M&A
Represented Main Steel Polishing, Inc. and its shareholders in the sale of the company, which is the largest stainless steel processing company in the United States, with facilities in six states, to Shale-Inland LLC, a private equity backed company in the stamping/fabricating industry.
Represented equipment dealer and servicer with thirteen locations to management group and strategic buyer in three related transactions.

Finance
Represented senior lender in revolving credit and term loan facilities to holding company and subsidiaries that own and operate six railroads, a railcar repair business and rail equipment leasing company.  Coordinated with UK counsel with respect to a separate facility for UK operations.

General Corporate
General Counsel to global provider of protective packaging and other specialty packaging products operating 47 facilities in 19 countries of the world.
 

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