Overview
Mark O’Meara is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Financial Services Department and a member of the Commercial Lending Group. Mark’s practice focuses on representing banks and other financial institutions in structuring and documenting secured and unsecured transactions. His experience includes asset-based lending, cash-flow lending, project financing, acquisition financing, and cross-border financings. In addition, Mark has experience representing banks and other financial institutions in loan restructuring and workout transactions.
Representative Matters
- Counsel to agent bank on a $105 million syndicated, unsecured letter of credit facility to a poultry company
- Counsel to agent bank on a $135 million syndicated, secured credit facility in connection with an acquisition of a specialty food maker
- Counsel to first lien agent bank and second lien agent bank on $115 million syndicated, secured credit facility in connection with an acquisition of a software company
- Counsel to agent bank in a workout of the senior debt to a candle company
- Counsel to Lender on a $300 million unsecured revolving credit facility to a family of hedge funds with both foreign and domestic borrowers
- Counsel to lender on a $30 million unsecured credit facility to a sugar processor and distributor
- Counsel to agent bank on a $325 million syndicated credit facility to a grain elevator for working capital purposes with a first lien on the working capital assets and a second lien on the real estate
- Counsel to agent bank on a $225 million syndicated, unsecured credit facility to a grocery store chain
- Counsel to agent bank on a $350 million, syndicated, secured credit facility to a poultry company for working capital and construction financing purposes
- Counsel to bank on a $23.5 million secured credit facility to a grower and processor of onions and other crops
- Counsel to agent bank on a $125 million secured credit facility to a financial services holding company
- Counsel to agent on a $450 million secured credit facility to a broker dealer
Practice Focus
Memberships
Public Interest Law Initiative
- Board of Directors
Admitted
Illinois
Education
Washington University Olin School of Business, M.B.A., 2001
Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1996
Ohio University, B.A., History/Political Science, 1993
