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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is a law firm which specializes in employment, environmental, public finance, and tax law.

For over two decades, private debt funds and banks have turned to Derek Ladgenski to advise on their most complicated and challenging debt financing deals. Derek helps his clients close complex financings quickly and efficiently, without surprises or delays, and builds their relationships and market presence along the way. Derek counsels lead arrangers, administrative agents and lenders on cash-flow acquisition and recapitalization financings, "take private" transactions and debt financings. Thanks to his vast experience and deep roots in the financing community, Derek helps his clients understand current market conditions, avoid getting bogged down in legal minutiae and get their deals done. His high volume of transactional work — from multibillion-dollar syndicated loans to smaller bilateral deals — allows him to advise clients on current market conditions, the effects of decisions through different credit cycles and positioning for future success. Derek serves on the Boards of Directors and Executive Committees of both Katten and Easter Seals Dupage and Fox Valley. He also assisted in the drafting and proposed implementation of a new commercial law system for post-war Afghanistan and has worked locally with Pro Bono Advocates and the Community Economic Development Project. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in finance, with distinction, and a Bachelor of Arts in English. He then graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1999. He resides in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, with his wife Sarah and their four children. Specialties: mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance, restaurant and franchise lending, senior secured lending, mezzanine lending, borrower representation Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.