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Elizabeth
L.
Majers
Partner
and
Co-Chair, Commercial Finance Practice Group
Elizabeth Majers has practiced primarily as special counsel representing institutional lenders in the area of the direct placement of corporate securities. She has represented virtually every major insurance company and pension fund active in the private placement industry, as well as hedge funds, banks, capital companies and other financial institutions in connection with their purchase of privately placed securities.
Ms. Majers has extensive experience representing institutional lenders in troubled and distressed financings. Her representative workout achievements include successful restructurings of C-BASS LLC (subprime mortgage originator and investor), U-Haul International, Wabash National Corporation, Illinois Vehicle Premium Finance (subprime insurance premium financing securitization), Union Square (D.C.) Credit Tenant Loan, and numerous private mezzanine transactions.
Her finance experience includes the structuring, documentation and negotiation of a wide variety of privately placed financial transactions such as mezzanine and private equity financings; workouts and restructurings; leveraged leasing of aircraft, railroad rolling stock, electronic data transmission equipment, vehicles, mining equipment and real estate; leveraged ESOP transactions; leveraged buyouts; project and facility financings; real estate financings; credit tenant loan transactions; loan and other asset securitizations and unsecured debt financings for U.S., Canadian and other foreign issuers. Her practice also includes a special emphasis on multiple property credit tenant loan securitizations.
She is a frequent chair and speaker at various industry conferences and seminars on the private placement industry and credit tenant loan financings.
Prior Work Experience
Prior to joining Loeb & Loeb LLP, Elizabeth Majers was a partner and chair of the global corporate finance group of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, as well as serving as the partner-in-charge of client relations for the entire firm.
Media Mentions
Affiliations
- Member, American College of Investment Counsel (former President and Trustee)
Distinctions
- Recommended “Top Lawyers in Illinois” in Banking & Financial Institutions Law, Corporate Finance Law and Bankruptcy & Workout Law, Leading Lawyers Network, a division of Law Bulletin Publishing Company (2004-2008)
- Named "Illinois Super Lawyer" in Securities & Corporate Finance and Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights by Law & Politics (2005-2006 and 2008 editions)
- Highest "AV" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
- Certified as a Public Accountant by the University of Illinois
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Indiana University School of Law, 1982, cum laude
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., 1979, with honors
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