Gary B. Rosenbaum is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. He focuses his practice on all types of finance transactions including private equity and mezzanine investments, venture lending and leasing, out-of-court debt workouts and restructurings, cross-border lending transactions and asset-based loans.
Gary advises various financial institutions, as well as borrowers and issuers, in structuring, negotiating and documenting leveraged finance transactions in a broad range of industries, including telecommunications, Internet and other technology fields, retail stores, healthcare, textile manufacturing, food products and manufacturing. He also has substantial experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in acquisition credit facilities and an array of other financings.
For the fifth consecutive year, The Best Lawyers in America (2011) recognized Gary as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking Law. In 2005 through 2011, the respected English publisher Chambers and Partners named him in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, noting in 2011 that clients praise him for his “excellent legal and business sense.” Gary also has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines in the area of Corporate Finance.
Gary previously served on the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the State Bar of California and was a primary contributor to the Report of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California on Legal Opinions in Personal Property Secured Transactions (2005). Gary recently co-authored two articles for the ABF Journal entitled “Stormy Weather Ahead: Current Economic Climate Creates Uncertainty for Second Lien Lenders” (October 2007), and “Meeting Challenges ‘Head On’ – What it Takes to Ride Out This Storm” (July/August 2009), as well as authoring articles for other publications relating to asset-based lending and intercreditor agreement issues.
Gary is a member of the Loan Syndication and Trading Association, the Commercial Finance Association Education Foundation, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Financial Lawyers Conference, the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Commercial Financial Services, International Commercial Law and Secured Transactions Committees and the Northwestern University Alumni Admissions Council.
While at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, Gary was a member of the UCLA Law Review from 1985 to 1987 and a member of its board of editors from 1986 to 1987.
Gary is admitted to practice in California.
Education
- University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1987
- Northwestern University, B.A., 1984
