Janet Nadile

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Nadile’s practice focuses on a broad array of commercial law and secured transactions, with an emphasis on issues regarding Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. She advises lenders and borrowers on all aspects of drafting and negotiating collateral security documents in a wide variety of secured transactions, including credit facilities, asset-based lending, secured bond transactions, project finance and funds finance. She also advises on matters involving collateral subject to the UCC and other statutes, frequently for the technology, media, telecommunications, automotive, healthcare and natural resources industries, among others.

Ms. Nadile previously served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel with Chemical Bank, restructuring commercial and real estate loans and representing the bank’s interests in bankruptcy court. She also provided restructuring and financing advice for companies seeking multimillion-dollar syndicated bank financings, securitizations and project finance, and represented clients in reorganizations, and debtor-creditor matters at her prior firm.

Select representations that Ms. Nadile was involved in at her prior firm include: U. S. Steel’s $1 billion senior secured notes offering; Cedar Fair’s $1 billion senior secured notes offering; Dell Technologies’ $2.25 billion first lien notes offering; Vivint Smart Home’s $600 million Senior Secured Notes offering concurrent with refinancing its existing $950 million term loan and $350 million revolving credit facility; Stena International’s $350 million senior secured notes offering; GardaWorld’s $450 million offering of senior secured notes; Community Health Systems’ refinancing; and Hovnanian Enterprises’ debt exchange and debt financing transactions.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Nadile is a frequent speaker on secured transactions, including speaking engagements during programs with the New York State Bar Business Law Section, the New York City Bar, the American Bar Association, Business Law Section and the Institute for the Young Business Lawyer, American Law Institute, and Practicing Law Institute.

She serves as president of the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys and was inducted into the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. Ms. Nadile previously served as Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Commercial Law and State Laws Committee that drafted revisions to Article 9 of New York’s Omnibus Uniform Commercial Code Modernization Act, which was signed into law in 2014. She previously served as a delegate representing the New York City Bar to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) working group for the creation of model legislation on security interests; She is the past Vice-Chair of the Secured Transactions Subcommittee of the UCC Committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA; a member of the Joint Task Force for Deposit Account Control Agreements; a member of the Joint Task Force on Security Interests in LLC and Other Unincorporated Entity Interests; and an editor of Business Law Today, the ABA Business Law Section’s monthly digital magazine.

Ms. Nadile earned her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School and she received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.