Bio

Michael Kaufman, chair of Day Pitney's Institutional Finance and Commercial Lending group, represents lenders and borrowers across numerous industries, including manufacturing, media, food service, retail and telecommunications. He has over 15 years of experience assisting clients with a range of financing matters. His practice involves all aspects of secured and unsecured bank, mezzanine, and other senior and subordinated lending. Michael represents borrowers, banks, funds and other lenders. He guides clients through the complexities of subordination and intercreditor arrangements, the negotiation of financial covenants and the perfection of collateral. Michael represents private equity clients in connection with the financing of acquisitions across a range of industries. He coordinates closely with the firm’s mergers and acquisitions attorneys to ensure that the lending arrangements are in hand when a deal is set to close. He also advises private equity clients in connection with the refinancing of indebtedness of portfolio companies. As a subset of his practice, Michael represents financial institutions in connection with loans to individuals, or their investment vehicles, secured by fine art, hedge fund interests and other assets. He has assisted his clients with credit facilities secured by artworks of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock and others.