Gray, David W.

Bob Graves represents lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of commercial financial transactions and has structured, negotiated, and documented scores of senior debt financing arrangements of all types, including secured and unsecured single bank and syndicated credit agreements, multicurrency financing facilities, and acquisition financings. He co-chairs Jones Day's Banking & Finance Practice.

A significant portion of Bob's practice focuses on workouts and restructurings of troubled credits, with particular emphasis on debtor-in-possession and exit financings. Most recently, Bob has been engaged in representing various market participants with respect to a variety of issues that have arisen from the credit crisis and resulting economic downturn. 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.

Companies for which Bob has worked on substantial matters include Bank of America, Macy's, Bunge North America, Kaiser Aluminum, and Wachovia Bank.

Bob 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. He is active in community and charitable affairs.