Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Finance Transactions

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Global Practice Group Leader - Finance Transactions

Karen Fries is the Global Leader of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's Finance Transactions practice group, which represents banks and other financial services entities as well as borrowers and issuers of debt throughout the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. Karen is also a member of BCLP’s Global Board.

Karen practices primarily in the area of borrower representation in connection with a wide variety of finance transactions. She represents a number of public and private corporations. Her experience includes negotiation and documentation of secured and unsecured, syndicated and single-lender revolving credit and term loan facilities as well as receivables sale and securitizations transactions. She has also represented borrowers in private placements. Karen also represents lenders in middle market bilateral credit facility transactions.  She also has broad restructuring experience including negotiation and documentation of large, syndicated debtor in possession financing transactions, representation of secured and unsecured creditors in various aspects of Chapter 11 cases and negotiation and documentation of out-of-court restructuring transactions.

Karen received a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1989. She was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review and the Vanderbilt Chapter of the Order of the Coif. Karen graduated, cum laude, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1986 with a B.S. in Business.

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