Dick M. Okada
Silicon Valley
T: +1 650 815 7475
F: +1 650 815 7401
dokada@mwe.com
Dick M. Okada is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on the representation of lenders or other creditors in commercial loan transactions, debt restructurings and transactions involving Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Dick has represented major financial institutions acting as agents or lenders in connection with senior or subordinated secured credit facilities, equipment lessors, factoring companies, venture investors and manufacturing companies and other trade creditors in the structuring and documentation of new transactions, the restructuring of existing transactions (both in Chapter 11 and out of court) and the enforcement of their rights.
Dick also has extensive experience dealing with the financing of major retail inventory liquidations, as well as the financing of factoring or asset-based lending businesses.
Dick has served as a member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the State Bar of California’s Business Law Section and is a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Uniform Commercial Code and Secured Transactions Committees. He is admitted to practice in California and New York.
Education
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1981
- Yale University, B.A. (cum laude), 1978
