Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• German

Lawyer Overview

Bob Graves represents lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of commercial financial transactions and has structured, negotiated, and documented scores of senior debt financing arrangements of all types, including secured and unsecured single bank and syndicated credit agreements, multicurrency financing facilities, and acquisition financings. He co-chairs Jones Day's Banking & Finance Practice.

A significant portion of Bob's practice focuses on workouts and restructurings of troubled credits, with particular emphasis on debtor-in-possession and exit financings. Most recently, Bob has been engaged in representing various market participants with respect to a variety of issues that have arisen from the credit crisis and resulting economic downturn. He also has extensive experience in structured finance, particularly in securitizations of credit card and trade receivables and in note and other financial asset monetizations. Bob regularly advises clients on a broad spectrum of financing issues and Uniform Commercial Code matters.

Companies for which Bob has worked on substantial matters include Bank of America, Macy's, Bunge North America, Kaiser Aluminum, and Wachovia Bank.

Bob has written a number of articles and spoken at numerous professional conferences and seminars on commercial financing topics. He is a member of the ABA (Business Law Section); The Chicago Bar Association, where he has served as chair of the Commercial Finance Committee; and the Economic Club of Chicago. He is active in community and charitable affairs.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Lending
• Securitization
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Secured Lender Groups
• Bondholder Committees
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Out-of-Court Restructurings
• Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
• Global Restructuring Matters
• Restructuring-Related Lending & Finance
• Financial Services

Representative Cases

• In re NRG Energy
• Acquisition by Investor Group
• Acquisition Financing
• Acquisition Financing for GE Global eXchange Services
• Acquisition Financing for Metris Companies Inc.
• Acquisition Financing for Sprint Corporation's Directory Publishing Business
• Acquisition Financing for Torrington
• Acquisition of Dex Media
• Acquisition of Milestone AV Technologies
• Acquisition of P&H Solutions
• Amendment to Credit Facility
• Canadian DIP Facility
• Chapter 11 cases
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations , (2006)
• Credit Facilities and Notes
• Debt Tender Offer
• Debtor Representation
• DIP Credit Facility
• DIP Facility
• DIP Financing
• DIP Financing for Sweet Factory, Inc.
• Distressed Credit Facility
• Exit Financing
• Exit Financing for Sheffield Steel Corporation
• Global Restructuring Matters – Cross-Border Reorganizations
• Offer for American Home Mortgage
• Private Placement
• Quantum Foods, Inc. Senior Secured Credit Facility
• Refinancing for Hussey Copper Ltd.
• Refinancing of Notes
• Repricing of Credit Facility
• Revolving Credit Agreement and Second-Lien Term Loan
• Rule 144A and Regulation S Notes Offering
• Rule 144A and Regulation S Notes Offering
• Rule 144A and Regulation S Notes Offering by Hanareum International Funding Limited
• Sale of Accounts Receivables , (2009)
• Sale of Accounts Receivables , (2009)
• Sale of Accounts Receivables , (2009)
• Sale of Bridal Group Division
• Sale of Receivables
• Sale of Secondary-Market Distressed Loans
• SCFA Tax Credit Financing
• SCFH Tax Credit Financing
• Secured Financing
• Securitization
• Securitization
• Securitization
• Surety Bonding Facility
• Tax Credit Financing
• Term Debt Refinancing
• Unsecured Revolving Credit Facility

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Consumer Bankruptcy, Credit Unions, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Debtor/Creditor, Foreclosures, Garnishment, International Banking, International Law, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Public Finance, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Savings & Thrifts, Securities Law, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Venture Capital, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• New York, Third Department

Education

• U of Illinois - Urbana (Main)

Published Works

• Evaluating Counterparty Risk: Whom Can You Trust?, 2008
• Extraterritorial Application of the USA PATRIOT Act and Related Regimes: Issues for European Banks Operating in the United States, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, 2007
• Banking and Finance Report, 2007

Address

77 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601-1692

Phones

1.312.269.4356 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.312.782.8585 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com