Overview

Chris Preston is a partner in the Banking and Financial Services Department and the Public and Institutional Banking & Finance Group of Chapman and Cutler. He joined the firm in 2008.

Chris's experience includes work in the banking and public finance areas. He has extensive experience in acting as counsel to both domestic and foreign banks providing credit enhancement and liquidity support for tax-exempt and taxable financings for municipal, health care and not for profit borrowers, including the direct purchase of bonded indebtedness. Chris has also represented commercial banks in structuring secured and unsecured transactions, including revolving loan and term loan facilities.

Prior to joining the firm, Chris worked at Collins & Blaha, P.C. in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Memberships

American Bar Association

Federal Bar Association

Oakland County Bar Association

Admitted

Illinois

Michigan

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Education

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2005

  • Member, UDM Law Review

Michigan State University, B.S., Advertising, 2001

Notable Engagements

  • Unique Private Placement Involving a Bank Direct Purchase
    Unique Private Placement Involving a Bank Direct Purchase

    Chapman represented the note purchaser in a $45 million private placement to finance construction of a new water intake system at The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the first-plant-of-its-kind in California and the largest desalination facility in the Americas. 

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