| Biography | Dennis is a Member in the Corporate & Securities Section. His primary area of concentration in recent years has involved asset-based transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, project-based financings, leveraged lease transactions, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, and secured lending transactions. He has represented lenders, borrowers, purchasers, and sellers in transactions ranging from small retail stores to multinational manufacturing businesses. Dennis has had significant experience during the past 10 years representing the developer in the construction and financing of a number of project-financed biomass waste-to-energy facilities located in New England and California. These facilities involved financing ranging from $30 million to $90 million. Each project involved a major construction financing, followed by a sale and leaseback transaction based on revenues from a power purchase contract with a major public utility. More recently, Dennis has been involved in representing a major health care provider in the acquisition of health care facilities throughout the United States, and representing a large New England bank with respect to financing the renovation and reopening of the Quincy Shipyard. Dennis' broad experience in commercial and corporate transactions also includes primary responsibility for representing borrowers in numerous multinational leveraged buyer transactions, representing borrowers in leveraged acquisitions of concrete companies, woolen mills, manufacturing facilities, radio and television properties, office buildings, apartment buildings, cable television networks, steel mills, food brokers, ski areas, franchise businesses, and waste disposal companies. Dennis also has rendered advice to Boston banks with respect to general commercial banking matters, and represented the corporate trust department of a major Boston bank in connection with the sale and leaseback of several large office buildings located in New England. Before joining Mintz Levin, Dennis was employed for five years as an engineer in the aerospace industry. Dennis is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and before the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts. He is a member of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations. He received his B.S. from Lafayette College (1965), his M.B.A. from Boston University (1970), and his J.D. cum laude, from Boston University School of Law (1973), where he was Editor of the Boston University Law Review. Industries Construction Energy & Clean Technology Financial Services Health Care Insurance Manufacturing Professional Services Real Estate Telecommunications & Media |