Evan Palenschat > Proskauer Rose LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
Proskauer Rose LLP Offices

THREE FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA
70 WEST MADISON, SUITE 3800
CHICAGO IL 60602-4342
ILLINOIS
United States
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Evan Palenschat

Work Department
Private Credit
Position
Evan Palenschat is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department. His principal focus is the representation of private credit funds, financial institutions, hedge funds and public and private borrowers, as well as alternative lending institutions in connection with complex financing matters, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and opportunistic lending.
Evan advises clients on all aspects of corporate transactional work as well as in work-outs and other downside scenarios. Evan has acted on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $50 billion, ranging from senior secured, second lien and subordinated financings to asset-based loans, preferred equity, structured equity products, Holdco financings, work-outs, restructurings and bridge and mezzanine financings.
Evan’s clients have included Antares Capital, Golub Capital, HPS Investment Partners, JPMorgan, Capital One, Whitehorse Capital and others.
Evan received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and also received an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending