Bruce Baker

Practice Areas:

• Banking and Finance Transactions
• Business Law
• Regulatory Compliance

Mr. Baker has over 30 years of broad transactional experience counseling primarily major banking and financial institutions, including 12 years as in-house counsel at one of Chicago's largest banks.  He has spent the last 20 years in private practice at large national and international law firms.

He has an extensive transactional background in banking and finance, general corporate, commercial, M&A and regulatory matters.  He prepares and negotiates bank financing documents for middle market corporate financings of all types, including senior and subordinated and secured and unsecured transactions, real estate transactions, acquisitions, divestitures and recapitalizations as well as private banking and wealth management financings.

Bruce advises on general corporate and commercial transactions, start-up companies, structuring private company acquisitions, initial capital structures, private equity and mezzanine investments.  He also counsels clients on bank regulatory matters.

Education:

• University of Chicago (JD)
• Johns Hopkins University (BA, MA)

Admissions:

• Illinois

Professional Activities:

• American Bar Association
• American Bar Foundation
• Chicago Bar Association

Civic Activities:

• Board of Managers, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, 2002 to 2009
• Board of Directors, Chicago Commons, 1996 to 2005
• Board of Directors, The Corporation for Supportive Housing, 2000 to 2003
• Board of Directors, Centers for New Horizons, 1996 to 2002