Casey J. Nelson Partner

Casey concentrates her practice in middle-market finance transactions, with a focus on senior secured acquisition financings. Her experience includes syndicated senior debt, acquisition financing, ABL finance, real estate finance, and franchise finance. Casey’s clients include institutional banks, private credit funds, private wealth management providers, investment funds and strategic acquirers. Casey has particular experience advising agents, sponsors and borrowers on structuring, negotiating and documenting credit facilities in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, oil and gas, industrials, franchises and cloud-based enterprises.

Casey serves as the co-chair of the Chicago office’s pro bono committee, the co-chair of the Chicago office’s Women Lawyers Network, and serves as an active member of the Chicago office’s recruiting committee. Casey is also a host on the firm’s “Deal Us In” Podcast, which is run through the firm’s Women in Private Equity & Finance initiatives.

Outside the firm, Casey serves as the chair-elect of the Alumni Leadership Council for Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) and is involved with a variety of pro bono legal organizations, including Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, Wills for Heroes, and Free Legal Answers.

Prior to joining the firm, Casey was an associate at an AmLaw 200 firm and completed a PILI Fellowship at Legal Aid Chicago.