The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP said today that Charles J. Kolin and David J. LaSota have joined its Chicago office as shareholders in the Corporate & Securities Practice. Prior to joining the firm, Kolin and LaSota were partners with Chapman and Cutler LLP.
Kolin will continue to focus his practice on corporate, project and infrastructure finance transactions (both domestic and cross-border), with an emphasis on institutional private placements of debt securities. He has experience across a wide range of industries, including facility infrastructure, oil and gas, pipeline and storage, real estate, water, agriculture and public housing – with transactions in the billions of dollars.
LaSota will focus his practice on structured corporate finance transactions, including credit tenant loans, project finance, government contract finance and other institutional private placement offerings of debt (both secured and unsecured).
Both Kolin and LaSota represent insurance companies, pension funds, banks, finance companies and other institutional investors.
“We are very pleased to welcome Charles and Dave to our Chicago office. Their extensive experience in and comprehensive knowledge of the institutional private placement market clearly strengthens our already substantial Corporate & Securities Practice.” said Paul T. Fox, co-managing shareholder of the Chicago office.
We are confident they will make meaningful contributions, both in Chicago and in our firm more generally.”
“We look forward to working with the Greenberg Traurig team of exceptional lawyers practicing in the private placement market and expanding the private placement group,” said LaSota.
“Greenberg Traurig provides the ideal platform to enable us to offer quality counsel and service to our clients and other relationships, including a London office and strong Project & Infrastructure Finance, Real Estate and Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practices,” said Kolin.
Kolin earned his B.S. in finance from John Carroll University, and his J.D., cum laude, from The John Marshall Law School. LaSota earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
