Don Ensing > McGuireWoods LLP > Charlotte, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
FIFTH THIRD CENTER
201 N TRYON ST, STE. 3000
CHARLOTTE, NC 28202
NORTH CAROLINA
United States
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Don Ensing
Position
Don focuses his practice on corporate finance, particularly senior debt financing for acquisition transactions. He is a co-chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Team, chair of the firm’s Finance Committee, and served on the firm’s Board of Partners from 2012-2018. He has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance (Woodward/White, Inc.).
Don’s experience includes structuring and negotiating syndicated, secured and unsecured senior debt, acquisition financing, real estate financing, and navigating complex intercreditor issues. His lending clients include regulated banks, debt funds and other non-bank lenders. While Don’s background includes a broad range of commercial financing transactions, he has particular expertise advising agents, lenders and borrowers on structuring, negotiating and documenting senior debt facilities for healthcare, energy and early-stage technology companies, and the collateral and operational challenges specific to those sectors.
Don served as law clerk to District Court Judge F.A. Little of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana from 1998 to 1999.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
McGuireWoods LLP‘s debt finance team includes leading banks such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo in its client roster, regularly handling investment grade, leveraged, middle market and troubled credit profiles. The practice is also highlights for its ‘unparalleled knowledge of the sports finance sector for bank lenders‘, as well as for its experience handling ABLs and matters related to the healthcare finance industry. Practice head Kevin McGinnis is a key name in the Charlotte office for his extensive experience handling credit facilities in the context of professional sports franchises. The team is ably supported by Don Ensing in the Chicago office whose expertise lies in the healthcare and energy sectors. June 2023 saw the departure of Hamid Namazie.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense