JD, Head Note and Comment Editor, Buffalo Law Review, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, 1989
BS, State University of New York, University at Buffalo, 1986

• New York State Bar

• Represented Allete Clean Energy in the private placement of secured notes for its 100 MW wind farm project in Pennsylvania.
• Represented Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in a back leverage financing for a 27 MW solar project in California.
• Represented Meritor, Inc. and its domestic and international subsidiaries in connection with arranging more than US$1 billion of secured revolving and term loan credit facilities.
• Represented Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, in connection with a US$485 million syndicated senior secured revolving credit facility for Solar Capital, Ltd.
• Represented Deutsche Bank, Sociedad Anónima Española, as Initial Purchaser and Administrative Agent in connection with an US$80 million Receivable Purchase Facility relating to four hospital construction financings in Panamá.
• Represented Sovereign Bank and Banco Santander in connection with a US$300 million single investor tax lease financing for a 102.5 MW wind farm project in California.
• Represented Regions Bank in connection with a US$300 million single investor master tax lease financing for a portfolio of solar projects in the U.S.
• Represented a pharmaceutical company in a $110 million mortgage financing for its headquarters' building in Connecticut.
• Represented a restaurant development company in several financings for the construction and development of several restaurants in New York and Washington, D.C.
• Represented a syndicate of lenders in providing US$500 million in lease financing for the construction of an electric generating facility.
• Represented a major financial institution in connection with raising US$750 million in a warehouse financing structure for a portion of its loan portfolio.
• Represented Citibank, N.A. and a syndicate of lenders in connection with restructuring more than US$1 billion in secured loans extended to marine terminal operators.
• Represented a bank group in connection with restructuring more than US$700 million in loans for a manufacturing company and its domestic and foreign subsidiaries, which included providing DIP financing and a debt-for-equity exchange.
• Represented a bank group in connection with a US$270 million debt-for-equity exchange for an operator of marine terminals.

• 2022 Black Leadership Award, Profiles in Diversity Journal, 2022
• Recognized as one of America’s Top Black Lawyers, Black Enterprise Magazine, Black Enterprise, 2003
• Legal 500 US, recommended lawyer, Finance - Structured finance: securitization, The Legal 500, 2018

• "When Investors Become Part Of The Borrowing Base," Law360, March 13, 2012
• "Capital Loans to Private Equity Funds: When Investors Become Part of the Borrowing Base," Corporate Practice NewsWire, January 2012