Bio

Aiming to create lasting, effective, fair and transparent business partnerships for clients, Criston Cicala draws upon his diverse legal and business backgrounds to achieve innovative solutions for a variety of legal needs. A corporate, finance and banking attorney with more than two decades of both domestic and international experience, Cris focuses his multifaceted practice on providing corporations, financial institutions, private equity and credit funds, real estate developers, media companies and entrepreneurs with practical and strategic legal advice. He regularly represents clients in complex matters involving trade finance, private equity and credit, commercial lending, real estate finance, structured finance, banking, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. He is a former principal investor and advisor in both private equity and real estate matters, providing him the unique perspective of having played a lead role in both the acquisitions and dispositions of assets, as well as having been involved in the day-to-day management of both real estate and corporate ventures. Prior to joining Stinson, Cris served as the New York office managing partner of a boutique law firm.