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Provided by John F Ventola
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John Ventola, co-chair of Choate’s Finance and Restructuring Group, has more than 25 years of experience representing banks, finance companies, hedge funds, and distressed investors and helping guide them through a wide range of complex lending and corporate restructuring issues, including Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. John is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy and is a member of Choate’s Executive Committee.
John’s lending experience includes representing financial institutions in complex, multi-tranche financial transactions, including asset based, cash flow, Term B, second-lien, DIP and mezzanine loans and preferred stock, and other junior capital investments. John also has deep restructuring experience, having practiced extensively in bankruptcy courts across the country in connection with a range of issues, including cash collateral disputes, equitable subordination and recharacterization, Section 363 sales, and contested plans of reorganization. He has particularly extensive experience in retail finance and other asset-based lending transactions and the heavily-negotiated intercreditor arrangements that are often the key element in successfully completing those financing arrangements.
John also frequently works with alternative investors, including private equity sponsors and hedge funds, seeking to identify and acquire distressed companies or assets.
John’s clients include Callodine Commercial Finance, SLR Credit Solutions, PNC Retail Finance, B. Riley Financial, Second Avenue Capital Partners, Wells Fargo, Bank of America Business Capital, and Great American Capital Partners.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Commercial Finance Association;
Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute;
Member of the Turnaround Management Association;
Member of the Bankruptcy Section of the Boston Bar Association
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John Ventola has long-standing experience in the banking and finance space, regularly advising on secured transactions as part of a broad practice also covering loan amendments and complex cross-border credit facilities.
John Ventola is experienced in representing banks, finance companies, hedge funds and distressed investors in matters including Chapter 11 matters, out-of-court workouts, and lending and corporate restructuring issues.
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"He provides intelligent, commercial and timely counsel."
"He provides intelligent, commercial and timely counsel."
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