Skip to Main Content.

Industries

Practices

Biography

Tim’s practice focuses on consumer financial services and regulatory and compliance matters for banks, fintechs and non-bank business partnering with banks or other financial institutions to provide consumer financing to their customers. Additionally, Tim routinely advises clients regarding a variety of complex commercial finance, real estate and real estate finance matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing transactions, representing borrowers and lenders in commercial lending and real estate financing transactions, and representing clients in joint venture transactions. Tim is an active member of the firm’s Financial Industry Services Team.

Tim is best known for providing practical legal guidance in complex transactions for sophisticated clients based on real-world operational experience and understands his clients’ needs from their perspective. He is focused on providing world-class legal counsel in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Throughout his career, Tim has been involved in many complex and high-value transactions, providing thought-leadership and guidance through significant business challenges.

Tim previously served as general counsel and chief compliance officer for an innovative FinTech leader in the business finance industry that has funded more than $7 billion working capital to its commercial customers. He has held several high-level positions during his tenure at GE Capital, last serving as the chief compliance officer for GE Capital’s direct segment, which provided billions of dollars of capital to businesses of all types throughout North America.

Other Info About Tim

Experience

Legal Work Highlights

Represent fintech lender in establishing its initial bank partnership program and negotiating the program agreement.

Advised retail company in connection with its consumer lending programs (which fund nearly $1B per year) with various financial institutions and banks.

Advise consumer retail company regarding it regulatory requirements for its financing programs.

Prepare compliance program for fintech lender to meet regulatory and bank partner requirements.

Established consumer financial regulatory program for retail company engaged in consumer financing services.

Advised BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) fintech regarding consumer regulatory obligations and development of its financial services regulatory compliance program.

Represent cutting-edge payments company with regard to regulatory matters, including development of the client’s compliance management system.

Represent start-up small business lender, including licensing issues, loan documentation and compliance and regulatory policies.

Counseled fintech lender with regard to state licensing laws for innovative automobile refinancing product.

Routinely serves as outside counsel to a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) in real estate acquisitions, portfolio transactions, financing and divestures, with the total value exceeding $1,000,000,000.

Represents high-growth retail company in various types of sale-leaseback, reverse build to suit and similar leasing transactions, with an aggregate value in excess of $750,000,000.

Represent publicly traded investment fund in the acquisition and sale-leaseback of big-box retail stores on a nation-wide basis, having an aggregate value in excess of $400,000,000.

Represent industrial property platform of a publicly traded company in multiple acquisition and sale transactions, including the sale of a $149,000,000 portfolio of industrial buildings to one of the largest investment banks in the world and the sale of a $126,000,000 portfolio of industrial buildings to a publicly traded REIT.

Represented a privately held borrower in the FinTech space to recapitalize the company, which included amending and restructuring its $40 million corporate credit facility, its $250,000,000 warehouse facility, and multiple warrants for various classes of both common and preferred equity.  In connection with the recapitalization, the firm also restructured the employee equity plan. The lender was a New York-based private equity firm.

Represented administrative agent bank in a syndicated credit facility for loans in excess of $150,000,000.

Represented bank in a $15,000,000 subscription line of credit for a private equity fund.

Represent oil and gas company in negotiating its $40,000,000 revolving credit facility with a national bank.

Education

Law School

Loyola University Chicago, J.D. with Federal Tax Certificate, 2005

Graduate School

Loyola University Chicago, LLM Tax Law, 2008

Loyola University Chicago, M.S. Accountancy, 2010

Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, M.B.A., 2013

Undergraduate School

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, B.S. Aviation Management, 2000

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, A.A.S. Aviation Flight, 1999

Bar Memberships

Tim is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Ohio, 2019

Illinois, 2005

Courts

Tim is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Rising Star, Ohio Super Lawyers, Tax Law, 2009

Recipient, GE Capital Americas Legal Value Award, 2012

Recipient, Corporate Finance Leadership Award, 2011

Recipient, GE Capital Americas Legal Department “Rookie of the Year” Award, 2011

Related Insights