Kristopher P. Henman

Kris’ clients include national, regional, and community banks; public and private financing firms; and other investment funds, advisors, and managers. He advises them in transactions involving a variety of structures including syndicated, mezzanine, club, sponsor, senior secured and unsecured, subscription lines, management lines, GP lines, NAV facilities, other asset-based loans (including accounts receivable, inventory, recurring revenue, and equipment), and growth capital financings. His work involves both domestic and international transactions and multiple currency loans, including secured financing in the Cayman Islands, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.

In his 15 plus years of practice, Kris has helped structure financing deals for a broad range of borrowers, including venture capital and private equity funds and real estate investment funds; and operating companies in the biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics, and health care technologies industries; early-, mid-, and late-stage technology companies; high net worth individuals; public and private corporations; and health care providers.

Kris also has experience in loan workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy, creditor’s rights, and a variety of asset-based lending transactions, including those secured by government accounts, real estate, intellectual property, equipment, and capital calls.

• Represented a secured lender in a $125 million capital call line of credit.
• Represented a secured lender in a $25 million subscription loan to a real estate fund.
• Represented a secured lender in a $15 million subscription loan to an impact fund.
• Represented a secured lender in a $2 million management company line backed by multiple guarantees.
• Represented a secured lender in a GP loan with guarantees from individual investors and related vehicles and pledges from related funds and investment vehicles.
• Represented a secured lender in a $50 million capital call line of credit to a group of REIT Series funds in a master-feeder structure including guarantees by owners and pledges of capital commitments from feeders.
• Represented a secured lender in a $120 million sponsor-backed leveraged financing.
• Represented a lender in a $10 million loan to a search fund.
• Represented a lender in a growth capital facility and accounts receivable line of credit to U.S., Hong Kong, and Dutch borrowers.
• Represented a lender in a mezzanine loan transaction involving a $6 million recurring revenue line of credit, a $3 million term loan, and a new $20 million secured mezzanine term loan.
• Represented a secured lender in a $6 million term loan and a $10 million accounts receivable and purchase order line of credit.
• Represented a secured lender in a $6 million term loan and a $10 million accounts receivable and inventory line of credit to an electronics company.
• Represented a lender in a $48 million secured term loan to refinance a server farm in California.
• Represented a secured lender in an $8 million guidance line of credit to a real estate company for tax lien certificate purchases.
• Represented a nonagent bank holding a $40 million loan position in a $740 million syndicated asset-based credit facility to a borrower fund that lends to middle-market companies.
• Represented co-lenders in a $10 million term loan to a medical device manufacturer.
• Represented a lender in a $15 million senior secured recurring revenue line of credit.
• Represented a lender in a growth capital loan to a mobile app provider with assets, including intellectual property, in Singapore, China, and the Cayman Islands.
• Represented domestic and Canadian lenders in a $9.5 million multicurrency loan secured by a blanket lien on assets in the United States and Canada.
• Represented an agent bank in a syndicated multicurrency $1.5 billion loan to more than 30 borrowers.

• Legal 500 United States for Finance: Commercial Lending (2023-2024) and Finance: Financial Services Regulation (2025)