Patricia J. (Trish) Lane

Patricia J. (Trish) Lane

Patricia J. Lane is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Finance & Financial Institutions Practice and Sports Industry Team.

Ms. Lane has extensive experience representing issuers, underwriters and rating agencies in asset securitization transactions. She has experience with a wide variety of financial assets, including auto loans and leases, agricultural and construction equipment chattel paper, credit card receivables, health care receivables, future cash flows, government contract receivables, Chapter 13 plans, delinquent credit card receivables, television revenues, trade receivables, lease receivables, mortgage loans, stranded utility costs, home equity loans, and home equity lines of credit.

Ms. Lane has also represented and advised numerous corporate borrowers in complex financing arrangements. Representative clients include Tyco International Group S.A., Johnson Controls, Inc., Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., Fiserv, Inc., Oshkosh Corporation, Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Snap-on Incorporated, A.O. Smith Corporation, Journal Communications, Inc., MGIC Investment Corporation and Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Limited Partnership.

She also has represented corporate borrowers in work-out transactions both inside and outside of bankruptcy including debtor-in-possession financings. She has extensive experience in acquisition financings representing corporate borrowers involved in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings, and other change-of-control financings. She also has structured warehouse lending facilities.

Ms. Lane has negotiated and documented a wide variety of derivative transactions including interest rate and currency exchange agreements, equity index, total return, and other hedging transactions. She also has negotiated liquidity and credit enhancement measures.

She is a co-author of a recent book published by Aspatore Books - The Law and Economics of Financial Markets - Lessons of History That Assure Success in the Future.

Ms. Lane graduated from the University of Chicago (J.D.) and Marquette University (B.A., summa cum laude), where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.