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Christina B. Rissler

Partner
Deputy Practice Group Leader

Christina represents lenders, borrowers, and other market participants in secured and unsecured commercial lending and structured finance.

Christina Rissler has more than 20 years of experience representing lenders, borrowers and other market participants in secured and unsecured commercial lending and structured finance.

She advises on senior, second lien and subordinated financings; workouts and restructurings; working capital and leveraged acquisition financings; accounts receivable financings; single-currency and multicurrency, domestic and cross-border financings; equipment financings; project finance; lines of credit; letter of credit transactions; securitization; and loan syndications and participations. Among other industries, Christina’s experience includes transactions in telecommunications, media, automobile, water and timber/agribusiness.

After graduating first in her class from Notre Dame Law School, Christina served as a law clerk for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and is admitted to practice before that court. She is also admitted to practice law in Georgia, New York and Colorado. In April 2018, Christina was admitted to the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers as a Fellow and in April 2023, was elected to its Board of Regents for a four-year term. She is a former Chair of the Loan Documentation Subcommittee of the Commercial Finance Committee of the ABA’s Business Law Section. Christina has given a number of presentations for clients, at conferences, and within the firm on topics of interest within the commercial finance space.

  • Represented Toyota Motor Credit Corporation in multicurrency syndicated credit facilities totaling $15 billion.
  • Represented a Japanese financial institution in connection with a $165 million syndicated financing involving collateral in eight countries, FX forward and letter of credit subfacilities, and intercreditor issues under New York, Irish and English law.
  • Represented CoBank, ACB, as administrative agent, in $960M secured syndicated revolving and term loan facility for a leveraged acquisition involving three publicly reporting companies.
  • UCC Financing Statement Debtor Name Fundamentals, September 16, 2022, American Bar Association Business Law Section
  • SOFR Loans: The Future Is Now, August 16, 2022
  • LIBOR Transition Fallback Language, May 25, 2021
  • LIBOR Transition: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going, March 18, 2021, UNC Center for Banking and Finance Program
  • Going, Going, Gone: The Transition from LIBOR to Alternative Reference Rates, February 27, 2020, State Bar of Georgia
  • LIBOR considerations for lenders and borrowers, including BDCs and private credit funds, November 19, 2019
  • LIBOR is Out; SOFR is In: Opportunities and Challenges Explored, September 26, 2019, The Knowledge Group
  • Impact of LIBOR changes to loan documentation and implications for lender liability, September 12, 2019, Joint Meeting of the Loan Documentation Sub-Committee and the Lender Liability Sub-Committee of the Commercial Finance Committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA
  • ARRC Reference Rate Replacement Recommendations and ISDA LIBOR Amendments: Who needs them? August 16, 2019
  • From Scandal to SOFR, June 17, 2019
  • LIBOR Replacement and US Tax Law Considerations for Multi-Currency and Cross-Border Financing Transactions, September 13, 2018, Austin Business Law Conference
  • Navigating Today’s Market: LIBOR and Other Updates, July 6, 2018
  • The DOL’s ERISA Fiduciary Rule: What Does It Mean For Your Client? April 12, 2018, Loan Documentation Subcommittee of the Commercial Finance Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association
  • Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Banking and Finance Law (2024)
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of commercial lending: advice to borrowers and lenders  (2023)
  • Board of Regents, American College of Commerical Finance Lawyers (2023-2027)
  • Fellow, American College of Commerical Finance Lawyers (2018)
  • Recipient, Hoynes Award, which is awarded to the valedictorian, Notre Dame Law School (2001)
  • Member, Fellows Nominating Committee of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (2019-2020)
  • Member, UNC School of Law Center for Banking and Finance Board of Advisors
  • Former Chair, Loan Documentation Subcommittee of Commercial Finance Committee of Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (2014-2018)
  • Former Editor, Commercial Law Newsletter (published by the Commercial Finance Committee and UCC Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section) (2010-2014)
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • Member, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law, American Bar Association
  • Member, Agriculture Law Section and Business Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
  • Member, Atlanta Bar Association
  • Colorado
  • Georgia
  • New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Honorable Paul J. Kelly Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

  • B.A., summa cum laude, Oglethorpe University
  • J.D., summa cum laude, University of Notre Dame Law School,

    Note Editor, Notre Dame Law Review

Christina Rissler

Partner

Deputy Practice Group Leader

Christina Rissler

Partner

Deputy Practice Group Leader

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