About Robert J. Graves
Practice Areas
- Banking
- Business Law
- Financial
- Bankruptcy
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Debtor & Creditor
- Real Estate
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1984J.D.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Illinois Wesleyan University, 1980B.A.
- Honors: cum laude
Languages
- German
Representative Cases
- Albertson's acquired by consortium of investors for $17.4 billion (2009)
- Alderwoods amends credit facility
- Alderwoods obtains credit facilities
- Alderwoods refinances DIP facility
- Alderwoods refinances public notes
- Ambac Assurance issues $278 million of Secured Floating Rate Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Hanareum International Funding Limited
- Ambac Assurance serves as credit enhancer in $475 million securitization of Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation leases and loans
- Bearings manufacturer obtains $500 million credit facility
- Board of Performance Transportation Services, second largest U.S. automobile hauler, reviews fiduciary duties to creditors and other constituents, stalking horse bids, and governance issues related to bankruptcy filings (2009)
- Boscov's Department Stores becomes another victim of the credit crunch (2009)
- BT Commercial Corporation serves as agent in Levitz restructuring
- Bunge North America finances $40 million acquisition of rail cars (2009)
- Bunge North America finances $72 million acquisition of rail cars (2009)
- CIT Group provides DIP financing for Sweet Factory
- CIT Group provides exit financing for Sheffield Steel
- CIT Group refinances Hussey Copper facility
- CPP Holdings finances Metris Companies acquisition
- Duchossois Industries acquires Milestone AV Technologies
- El Paso restructures eight existing credit facilities and obtains new $3 billion facility
- Federated Department Stores form strategic alliance with Citigroup Inc
- Federated sells Bridal Group division to Leonard Green and The Men's Wearhouse
- Francisco Partners acquires GE Global eXchange Services for $800 million
- Greeting card distributor securitizes trade receivables
- HIG Capital invests in Ready Pac Foods
- International food chain securitizes trade receivables
- JohnsonDiversey Holdings sells 46% interest to Clayton Dubilier & Rice as part of a $2.6 billion recapitalization (2009)
- JPMorgan Chase Bank obtains senior secured credit facility to obtain Quantum Foods
- Kaiser Aluminum and twenty of its subsidiaries emerge successfully from chapter 11 protection (2009)
- Kaiser Aluminum obtains financing in emergence from bankruptcy
- KeyBank sells distressed loans
- Laidlaw and five affiliates file for chapter 11
- Loan workout planned for Northwestern Atrium
- Morgan Stanley closes $650 million private placement by York Enhanced Strategies Fund (2009)
- Napster obtains DIP facility
- PPM Finance proposes $300 million revolving credit facility
- R.H. Donnelley acquires Dex Media
- R.H. Donnelley acquires Sprint Corporation's directory publishing business
- R.H. Donnelley completed Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $1 billion of Series A-4 Senior Notes
- R.H. Donnelley completes debt tender offer of $600 million of Senior Subordinated Notes
- R.H. Donnelley completes Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $500 million of Series A-4 Senior Notes
- SCFA completes tax credit financing transaction
- SCFH issues senior structured notes in tax credit financing
- SCFNY issues notes to insurance company investors
- Specialty resins manufacturer completes $70 million accounts receivable sale transaction (2009)
- Specialty resins manufacturer sells $26 million accounts receivables (2009)
- Specialty resins manufacturer sells $27 million accounts receivables (2009)
- Teleglobe obtains $57 million DIP facility
- Teleglobe obtains Canadian DIP facility
- The Timken Company finances Torrington acquisition
- Transaction Systems Architects acquires P&H Solutions for $150 million
- Wachovia provides $400 million financing for investment fund acquisitions
- Washington Group obtains $350 million exit financing
- Washington Group obtains $500 million surety bonding facility in exit financing
- Washington Group reprices $350 million credit facility
- WL Ross acquires loan servicing unit of American Home Mortgage (2009)
- Xcel Energy undergoes $10 billion chapter 11 reorganization of its unregulated utility subsidiary, NRG Energy
- Yellow pages publisher refinances debt
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
- New York
Past Positions
- Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1984 - 1985
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Partner
- Partner
- Partner
- Partner
Nearby Lawyers
- Banking
- Business Law
- Financial
- Bankruptcy
- 0.2 mile away
- 0.2 mile away
- 0.4 mile away
- 0.4 mile away
- 0.3 mile away
- 0.3 mile away
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.