Robert J. Graves (Bob)
Partner
Chicago
Tel: 1.312.269.4356
Fax: 1.312.782.8585
Email:
rjgraves@jonesday.com
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Bob Graves is cochair of Jones Day's banking and finance practice. He practices in the banking and financial institutions area, representing lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of commercial financial transactions. He has structured, negotiated, and documented senior debt financing arrangements of all types, including secured and unsecured single bank and syndicated credit agreements, multicurrency financing facilities, and acquisition financings. A significant portion of his practice focuses on workouts and restructurings of troubled credits, with particular emphasis on debtor-in-possession and exit financings. He also has extensive experience in structured finance, particularly in securitizations of credit card and trade receivables and in note and other financial asset monetizations. Bob regularly advises clients on a broad spectrum of financing issues and Uniform Commercial Code matters, and he has written a number of articles and spoken at numerous professional conferences and seminars on commercial financing topics.
He is a member of the ABA (Business Law Section), The Chicago Bar Association, where he has served as chair of the Commercial Finance Committee, and the Economic Club of Chicago and is active in community and charitable affairs.
Admitted
Illinois and New York
Education
Illinois Wesleyan University (B.A. cum laude 1980); University of Erlangen, Germany (Fulbright Scholar, 1980-1981); University of Illinois (Editor-in-Chief, Law Review; Order of the Coif; J.D. magna cum laude 1984)
Clerkship
Law Clerk to Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1984-1985)
Languages
German