Bio

Jon M. Jenkins (Jay), the managing partner of our New York office, is the co-director of the Corporate department and serves on the firm’s Management Committee. Jay practices in the area of corporate, banking and securities law with special emphasis on domestic and international secured lending transactions, international trade finance and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised on international corporate finance transactions, private equity transactions, corporate governance matters and public and private securities transactions, representing public and private companies, investment banks, commercial bank and high-net-worth individuals, the latter in connection with acquisitions of preferred stock and convertible debt in ventures in the United States and abroad. He has advised commercial banks on secured lending transactions ranging from $5 million to $350 million with borrowers in many different industries, as well as on all aspects of trade finance, including varied export/import receivables financing, letter of credit facilities and forfaiting. He has also represented an international bank in connection with accounts receivable loan facilities in transactions in the Czech Republic, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. He advised on the sale to private equity firms of a global ink dye business and a major food service distributorship, while he also negotiated the merger plans of two NYSE-traded companies.