Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Chip Bensinger practices corporate law, with a focus on lending and structured finance, as well as mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. He has represented capital providers and users in a broad variety of lending transactions, including secured and unsecured single and multiple lender credit facilities, multicurrency credit facilities, professional sports franchise financings, acquisition financings, subordinated and mezzanine debt, public debt issuances, chapter 11 "debtor-in-possession" and exit financings, and receivables securitizations. Representative clients range from investment-grade corporations such as Diebold and HNI Corporation to nonpublicly traded companies, and include lenders such as Royal Bank of Scotland, CIT, and Jefferies and private equity firms such as Ospraie Management LLC and J.F. Lehman & Company.

Chip also has led numerous M&A transactions (both U.S. and cross-border) involving public mergers and private equity and asset acquisitions and dispositions, distressed acquisitions, dispositions and restructurings, and joint ventures. Representative clients include Abbott Laboratories, HNI Corporation, Duchossois Industries, and The Stanley Works.

Chip is a member of the ABA (Business Law Section), the New York State Bar Association, and The Chicago Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Lending
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A

Representative Cases

• $500 million Beverly Hills Acquisition and Financing
• Acquisition by Brown-Forman Corporation
• Acquisition of American Fireplace and Allied Group
• Acquisition of BASF Pharma
• Acquisition of ConAgra Trade
• Acquisition of DiverseyLever
• Acquisition of National Manufacturing
• Acquisition of Paoli
• Acquisition of Security Group
• Acquisition of Witness Systems
• Aggregate of $2.7 Billion Bridge and Revolving Financing
• Amendment to Credit Facility
• Arlington International – Churchill Downs Merger
• Credit Facilities
• Credit Facilities
• Credit Facilities and Notes
• Credit Facilities and Public Debt Issuances
• Credit Facilities and Receivables Securitization
• Credit Facilities Refinancing
• Credit Facility
• McClain Power Plant Acquisition
• Multicurrency Credit Facilities
• Private Placement of Senior Notes
• Private Placement of Senior Notes
• Refinancing of Notes
• Revolving Credit Agreement and Second-Lien Term Loan
• Sale of Fact plus®, Signify®, and Abbott TestPack® Businesses
• Sale of Huntsville Electronics
• Sale of the mortgage loan servicing business of Option One Mortgage Corporation
• Secured Credit Facility
• Sports Industry Financing
• Sports Industry Financing

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Corporate Governance, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Banking, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Loan Workouts, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Public Finance, Reorganizations, Savings & Thrifts, Shareholders' Rights, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• New York, First Department

Education

• Washington University-St Louis

Address

222 East 41st Street
New York, NY 10017-6702

Phones

1.212.326.3797 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.212.755.7306 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.jonesday.com