Chris takes a results-focused, problem-solving, solutions-oriented approach to finance and restructuring matters. Regardless of the industry, Chris applies a business-minded viewpoint to help his clients successfully achieve their goals in an efficient manner.
Chris is a partner in the firm's Technology + Venture Lending Practice Group, based in San Francisco.
Chris represents a wide range of institutional and noninstitutional clients, working with them on commercial financing transactions, multiple currency loans, letters of credit and acquisition loans, factoring transactions, loan workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy, and creditor's rights.
He focuses his practice in particular on technology lending and venture debt financing, representing lenders as they secure multimillion-dollar lines of credit and term loans to early-stage, mid-stage, later-stage, and public companies in the e-commerce, software, hardware, SaaS, HaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, constructech, agtech, edtech, pharmatech, cleantech, insurtech, health care, and life sciences sectors. Chris also has experience in asset-based lending, commercial lending, real estate lending, factoring and secured financings to government contractors, venture capital and private equity firms, franchisees, high-net worth individuals, and health care providers. Further, Chris is adept at handling international transactions. His experience includes financing transactions in Israel, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Malaysia, and Europe.