Choate, Hall & Stewart

Finance and Restructuring

Partner

Shaina Wamsley London is a Partner in Choate’s Finance and Restructuring Group, where she serves as Co-Head of the Acquisitions/Sponsor Financing practice. She advises banks and other financial institutions that provide companies with, and also corporate borrowers that are seeking access to, liquidity for working capital needs, consummating acquisitions, refinancing existing debt, making dividends to equity holders, and restructuring their balance sheets. Shaina counsels clients on how to structure complicated financings and debt & equity restructurings, including for first lien and second lien financings, unitranche financings, first-in, last-out financings, and unsecured financings.

Shaina is frequently relied on by clients to advise them on “what’s market” and is lauded for approaching matters with a problem-solving and collaborative mindset. She has depth and experience across a variety of business sectors and has represented clients providing loans to sports teams and leagues, retail and hospitality companies, companies constructing and managing entertainment venues and other infrastructure projects, healthcare companies, software and technology companies, and electronics companies.

Shaina’s clients include Bank of America, Callodine Commercial Finance, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Pathlight Capital, PNC Bank, SLR Credit Solutions, Truist Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.

Harvard Law School, JD (2014) cum laude, Civil Rights Civil Liberties Journal

University of Maryland, BA (2009) magna cum laude