Global law firm Greenberg Traurig has added secured finance attorney Gerard C. Martin to its Chicago office as a shareholder in the firm’s restructuring and special situations practice. He joins the firm from Reed Smith.
Martin brings deep experience across the full spectrum of financing transactions and debt restructurings. He represents lenders, borrowers, sponsors and investors in a broad range of U.S. and international financing transactions, including cash flow and asset-based loans, leveraged loans, acquisition financings, bridge facilities, recapitalizations and complex intercreditor arrangements, including unitranche and multitranche structures. He regularly advises on large, syndicated credit facilities and cross-border and multicurrency financings. Martin also maintains an active equipment and aviation finance practice, representing parties in aircraft and engine financings, leveraged leases, rolling stock transactions and project finance matters. He works with clients across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, energy, aviation, technology, health care and financial services, among others.
A significant portion of Martin’s practice involves financial restructurings and workouts. He advises secured creditors and debtors in both in-court and out-of-court restructuring transactions and has extensive experience with debtor-in-possession financings, exit financings, and distressed investing and special situations.
“Greenberg Traurig is an ideal fit for my practice,” Martin said. “My work spans a broad range of financing transactions — from front-end secured lending and equipment finance to restructurings and workouts — and cuts across multiple structures, industries and credit situations. The firm’s platform is well suited to that breadth of work, and the depth of the finance and restructuring and special situations teams means clients can be served seamlessly at every stage of the credit cycle. I look forward to contributing to an already-exceptional team.”
Shari L. Heyen and Oscar N. Pinkas, co-chairs of Greenberg Traurig’s restructuring and special situations practice, added, “Gerard is exactly the kind of practitioner who amplifies what we already do exceptionally well. We already have a formidable team, and Gerard makes it stronger. He brings deep, sophisticated financing capability across the full deal spectrum — from large, syndicated credit facilities to complex workouts and distressed situations and equipment and aviation finance — and that directly strengthens an already-high-performing platform. Our clients benefit from a team that can advise seamlessly from initial financing through the most challenging restructuring scenarios, and Gerard’s arrival makes us even better at doing that.”
