MICHELE NUDELMAN’s practice focuses on distressed and special situation financings as well as leveraged and investment-grade lending, acquisition financings, asset-based financings, real estate financings, and general corporate governance matters in a wide variety of industries. Michele also has experience with debtor-in-possession financings, in-court and out-of-court restructurings, intercreditor issues, and complex cross-border transactions involving multiple debt tranches and multiple lien priorities. Michele often advises on bespoke transactions that often require cross-disciplinary capabilities.
Prior to joining Sidley, Michele worked at two other “Am Law 100” law firms, where she represented lenders, agents, financial institutions, initial purchasers, underwriters, and corporations with a focus on lending, capital markets, and derivative transactions including high-yield and investment-grade bond offerings, initial public and secondary equity offerings, commercial paper programs, medium-term note programs, bridge financing commitments, exchange offers, tender offers, and consent solicitations. Additionally, she spent more than a year on a legal secondment to a bulge bracket investment bank serving as in-house counsel to its fixed-income desk in New York and its debt capital markets desk in London.
Michele was the “Business Track Winner” in the 2007 Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest.