Cindy J. Chernuchin | Professionals | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Cindy J. Chernuchin is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Ms. Chernuchin’s practice focuses on secured transactions, representing borrowers, issuers, insurance and reinsurance companies, lenders, trustees, investment banks, financial institutions and private investment funds, in a wide array of transactions, including bilateral security and other credit support arrangements, longevity and pension risk transfers, capital markets transactions, structured finance transactions, and other financings, including asset-based lending, high-yield bonds, project financing, acquisition financing, debtor-in-possession financing, equipment financing, industrial development bonds, telecom financing, mutual fund financing, mezzanine financing and workouts. Ms. Chernuchin is the primary resource for firm clients and attorneys on all legal issues involving Article 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) including structuring secured transactions, reviewing and analyzing collateral packages, negotiating transaction documents and UCC opinions, including the creation and perfection of liens on real estate and personal property (including property subject to Cape Town and other statutes), performing legal audits to determine status of secured party’s security interest and advising on the exercise of remedies under the UCC (including foreclosure sales and strict foreclosures). Ms. Chernuchin is a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and a member of the ALI CLE Commercial Law/UCC/Bankruptcy Law Advisory Panel.  Her banking and finance experience is recognized by New York Super Lawyers.