Bio

Kenneth Chin counsels and represents lenders and borrowers in connection with corporate and financing transactions. For more than 35 years, Ken has provided legal and transactional advice to a diverse group of clients, including many of the world’s leading commercial banks, investment banks, debt fund affiliates of major hedge funds and private equity firms, other alternative lenders, and borrowers, in large complex transactions such as leveraged financings, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisitions, refinancings, debtor-in-possession financings, workouts and foreclosures. Ken’s work on behalf of these clients includes secured credit facilities for cash flow loans, asset-based loans and reserve-based loans; bridge loan facilities; second lien facilities; high-yield bond offerings; convertible bond offerings; securitization facilities; insurance premium finance facilities; debtor-in-possession facilities; and mezzanine facilities. One particular expertise of Ken’s is financings involving life insurance policies. Ken has represented a multitude of lenders and borrowers in such transactions and is also an expert witness in a litigation. Ken is the author of Security Interests: Life Insurance Policies and frequently makes presentations regarding such transactions. Ken is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He is the Secretary and a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. Chambers USA has recognized him in the areas of banking and finance, lauding him as a lawyer who, according to clients, is “very knowledgeable” and “very creative … in finding solutions,” and who “takes very good care of clients” (Chambers USA 2014). In 2014, he was named one of 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center. Ken is the recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s 2020 Diversity Trailblazer Award.