Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Tom Gillespie has practiced corporate and commercial law in New York, London, and Dallas. Tom oversees Jones Day's banking & finance practice for the Texas Region. He specializes in the representation of both financial institutions and corporations in complex domestic and international financial transactions, including secured and unsecured commercial loan facilities, project financings, lease financings, securitizations, debt and lease restructurings, acquisition financings, ESOP loans, letters of credit, competitive bid facilities, structured financings, derivatives, debtor-in-possession financings, and the private placement of securities. He also has considerable experience working in specific industry areas, including health care financings, energy financings, venture capital financings, and transportation financings (aircraft, vessels, and rolling stock). After obtaining his M.B.A. degree and prior to attending law school, Tom worked for two years in corporate finance with McDonnell Douglas Finance Corporation.

A member of the New York and Texas bars, Tom is a co-editor and contributing author of The Commercial Finance Guide and a contributing author of NAFTA and Beyond — A New Framework for Doing Business in the Americas. For 12 years he served as co-director of, and speaker on various finance topics for, the Institute on Commercial Lending sponsored by the Southern Methodist University School of Law. He is also a frequent speaker on topics involving banking and finance and has organized and delivered programs on loan and collateral documentation as well as leasing and leveraged leasing as part of in-house credit training programs for various banks and financial institutions.

In each year since the publication commenced, Tom has been named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers" by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers, which is an independent, objective, and research-based guide that reflects the judgment of the market. This publication ranks lawyers by the opinions of their peers and clients and by the quality of their work. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Texas (for banking law, 2009 Dallas edition) and named a "Top Lawyer" by Corporate Counsel.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Lending
• Securitization
• Financial Services
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Restructuring-Related Lending & Finance
• Airlines & Aviation
• Energy

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Aladdin Gaming
• Aeromech, Inc.
• Air Florida System, Inc.
• Aircraft Acquisition Loan Facility
• Aircraft Charter with Purchase Option
• Aircraft Dry Lease
• Aircraft Leveraged Lease Financing
• Aircraft Ownership Structure, Inspection and Purchase
• Aircraft Ownership Structuring
• Aircraft Ownership Structuring and Purchase
• Aircraft Purchase
• Aircraft Purchase
• Aircraft Purchase
• Aircraft Purchase
• Aircraft Purchase and Lease Financing
• Aircraft Purchase and Time Share
• Aircraft Purchase of Partial Ownership Interests
• Aircraft Restructuring and Operation
• Aloha Airlines Inc.
• Altair Airlines, Inc.
• American Airlines, Inc.
• American Airlines, Inc.
• Benderson Asset Acquisition
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representation
• Comair, Inc.
• Commercial Aircraft Acquisition
• Credit Facility
• Credit Facility and Restructuring
• Credit Facility for OM Group
• Debt Tender Offer
• Delta Air Lines, Inc.
• Delta Air Lines, Inc.
• Delta Air Lines, Inc.
• Development of Natural Gas Storage Facility
• Distressed Aviation Assets
• Dry Lease Aircraft Exchange Program
• Duke Energy Joint Venture
• Exit Financing
• Express One International, Inc.
• First Franklin Financial Corporation
• Fleet Capital Corporation
• Fractional Share Purchase of Aircraft
• Golden West Airlines Co.
• Headquarters and Data Center Facilities
• Hotel Financing
• Image-Based Technology Outsourcing Contract
• International Lease Finance
• Kitty Hawk, Inc.
• Mesa Airlines, Inc.
• Mississippi Valley Airlines, Inc.
• Multicurrency Secured Term Loan
• Northwest Airlines Corporation
• Northwest Airlines Corporation
• Northwest Airlines Inc.
• Northwest Airlines, Inc.
• Pan American World Airways, Inc.
• Pass-through Certificates
• Pechiney S.A.
• Privatization of Mexican Airlines
• Residual Value Guaranties/Remarketing Agreement
• Restructuring of Ownership
• Secured Credit Facility
• Secured Financing
• SimuFlite Training International, Inc.
• SmartJets
• Southern Air Transport, Inc.
• Swift Aire Lines, Inc.
• Syndicated Acquisition Financing
• Syndicated Secured Credit Facility
• Syndicated Secured Financing
• Synthetic Sale-Leaseback of Aircraft
• The Allstadt Companies
• TransWorld Airlines, Inc.
• Trinity Securitization, 2003
• Trinity Securitization, 2004

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, International Banking, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Public Finance, Reorganizations, Savings & Thrifts, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Texas

Education

• Cornell University

Published Works

• Europe's Unwelcome Scheme to Make Aviation Go Green, Jones Day Airlines and Aviation News Blast, 2008
• Recent FAA Action Changes Part 135 Landscape, 2007
• Cape Town Convention Changes Rules of Aircraft Purchase and Finance, 2006
• Financing Healthcare Receivables, Quarterly Report, Conference on Consumer Finance Law, 1996
• International Project Financing, coauthor, NAFTA and Beyond - A New Framework for Doing Business in the Americas, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Chapter 7, 1995
• Commercial Finance Guide, coeditor, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., 1991
• Equipment Leasing, Commercial Finance Guide, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., Chapter 4, 1991
• Rolling Stock, Commercial Finance Guide, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., Chapter 10, 1991

Address

2727 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201-1515

Phones

1.214.969.5076 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.214.969.5100 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com