Teresa Wilton Harmon Partner Chicago  312.853.7863 312.853.7036 Fax Vcard

TERESA WILTON HARMON is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP. Ms. Harmon's practice focuses on financial transactions and commercial law. Her transactional experience includes secured and unsecured loans, workouts, structured finance and securitization. Her commercial law experience includes all articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, with special emphasis on Article 9 secured transactions. Ms. Harmon has also assisted clients in litigation and bankruptcy matters involving commercial law issues.

Ms. Harmon is a nationally recognized speaker on commercial law and finance issues and is active in several professional organizations. She is a Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and a member of the American Law Institute. She is active in the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association and currently serves as its liaison to the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code. Ms. Harmon is past chair of the ABA's Securitization Subcommittee and the Chicago Bar Association's Commercial Finance and Transactions Committee. She has spoken at several American Bar Association, ALI-ABA and Practising Law Institute seminars and conducts frequent training presentations for clients.

Ms. Harmon co-chairs the firm's Training and Development Committee. She has taught Secured Transactions as an adjunct professor at The University of Illinois College of Law and has served as an adjunct professor in the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University, where she taught business law, ethics and legal issues involving not-for-profit organizations.