Michael Romaya Bio

Michael focuses on banking and finance matters and routinely represents financial institutions, borrowers, agents, sponsors, mezzanine providers and other investors (both regulated and nonregulated) in a wide range of financings and structures. They include bilateral, syndicated deals, secured and unsecured credit facilities, first lien/second lien credit facilities, mezzanine financings and cross-border financings. Michael’s experience encompasses leveraged buyout and leveraged recapitalization loans, asset-based loans, distressed debt financings, including debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings, and real estate financing. His practice also focuses on representing lenders and borrowers on workouts and restructuring of troubled credits. Additionally, Michael advises companies on different areas of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, and serves as the outside general counsel for companies assisting them with respect to day-to-day business issues. Chambers USA, which ranks top lawyers and law firms, notes that Michael “is adept at representing both borrowers and lenders in a wide variety of financing transactions. Peers highlight his rising profile in the market and identify him as a good lawyer.” Interviewees further declare him to be “an expert at debt instruments” whose “interface with lenders is extremely helpful.”