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The Secured Lender profiled McGuireWoods’ Debt Finance Department in its July/August 2024 issue, noting that the department is “laser focused on client service and firm culture.” Pittsburgh office managing partner Penny Zacharias and Chicago office managing partner Ying Hsu spoke to The Secured Lender about the department and industry trends. Zacharias said keeping up with regulatory pressures and market trends is a challenge, but McGuireWoods has the depth and knowledge base to help clients …

McGuireWoods has appointed new office managing partners in New York, Chicago, Charlotte and Baltimore, maintaining the firm’s longstanding tradition of rotating key leadership positions. Jeffrey Chapman is the firm’s new office managing partner in New York. He succeeds partner Noreen Kelly, who served in the role since 2015 and recently became chair of the firm’s nationally recognized Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department. Chapman focuses on financial services litigation, including complex commercial …

… efficiency and focus. Penny, who was named one of the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2020 Women of Influence, co-chairs McGuireWoods’ Women in Private Equity & Finance initiative and chairs the office’s recruiting committee. She has more than 15 years of experience representing financial institutions in a broad range of lending transactions. She focuses her legal practice on debt financing and secured transactions, including origination of asset-based and acquisition financing, leveraged finance, mezzanine finance …

… of Chicago North Carolina – Brian Barger and Bruce Steen of Charlotte Virginia – Dana Rust of Richmond Litigation: General Commercial Maryland – Ava Lias-Booker of Baltimore North Carolina – Douglas W. Ey Jr. and Bradley R. Kutrow of Charlotte Virginia – Jonathan Blank of Charlottesville Texas – Ronald Franklin of Houston Litigation: Medical Malpractice Defense North Carolina – Mark Anderson of Raleigh Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations Illinois – Christina Egan of Chicago Virginia – John Adams and Richard Cullen …

McGuireWoods lawyers advised Andeavor Logistics LP in its acquisition of $445 million in oil storage and terminal assets in Anacortes, Washington, from affiliates of the refining company Andeavor. The deal closed Nov. 8.The assets include tankage that can hold 3.9 million barrels of crude oil and other storage for raw materials and refined products; a rail terminal and certain connected rail lines; and pipelines for transferring crude oil, noncrude materials, black oil and …

… securities, accounting and regulatory issues. McGuireWoods has a cross-disciplinary team of corporate, energy and tax lawyers who provide industry-leading advice to clients in all aspects of MLP transactions. “This is a game-changing deal for Tesoro and it took great teamwork by lawyers across multiple practices and offices to make it happen,” said Craig Culbertson, a mergers and acquisitions partner in the firm’s Chicago office and leader of McGuireWoods’ Tesoro team …

… of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

On Wednesday, June 18, a group of Chicago associates (Holly Carnell, Jeannil Boji, Ying Hsu, Adrienne Walker Porter, George Spatz, Chuck Cavallo and Brad Salmon) and summer associates (Brian Harris, Joseph Hylak-Reinholtz and Bryan Bylica), participated in another group service project organized by the Chicago Associates Forum at the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD). From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., this enthusiastic group of volunteers worked in a "clean room" at the …