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Robert J. Gillispie

Partner

Robert J. Gillispie is a partner in the Corporate Department of our New York office. He has been involved in asset-based financing for more than 40 years. Mr. Gillispie has negotiated and documented domestic and cross-border leveraged lease, partnership and secured loan transactions, as well as synthetic leases. The assets have varied from aircraft, railcars, satellites, vessels and containers to electric generating plants, hydro-electric facilities, renewable energy facilities, gas distribution network and waste water collection and transportation systems. The current focus of Mr. Gillispie’s practice is on energy and infrastructure financings.

Representative Client Work

  • Represented SunEdison in a variety of sale/leaseback financings throughout the U.S. involving diverse financings entities, such as Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and MetLife Capital
  • Represented a finance subsidiary of a utility company, as equity investor, in connection with a sale/leaseback of a 250 MW natural gas-fired electric generating facility in New York
  • Represented a finance subsidiary of a utility company, as equity investor, in connection with a sale/leaseback of a 440 MW lignite-fired electric generating facility in Mississippi
  • Represented a utility company, as lessee, in connection with sale/leasebacks of two coal-fired electric generating facilities in New York 
  • Represented a bank subsidiary, as equity investor, in connection with a sale/leaseback of a waste-to-energy incineration facility in Germany
  • Represented a provider of financing in the structuring and implementation of a financing by a major Northeast city-sponsored, non-profit organization that created a program to significantly reduce energy and water use and carbon dioxide emissions

Bar & Court Admissions

  • New York, 1969
  • Supreme Court of the United States

Publications

  • Bay State's Big Selloff, The Boston Globe (July 27, 2007)
  • "Using your Assets," American City & Country (April 2007)
  • "Leveraged Leasing," Equipment Leasing, (2003)
  • "When is a Lease a Lease," Chadbourne & Parke Project Finance NewsWire (2004)

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Teaching & Speaking Engagements

  • "Outlook and Opportunities in Energy," ELA, Large Ticket Conference (2006)
  • "Leasing Due Diligence Questionnaire," ELA, Large Ticket Conference (2004)
  • "Equipment Leasing and Project Finance," A.L.I. - A.B.A. (1990 and 1992-1995)
  • "Aircraft Value Maintenance and Enhancement," Institute for International Research (1992)
  • "Maximizing Opportunities for FSC Expert Leasing in the '90's," FSC Leasing Conference (1991)
  • "Equipment Leasing and Project Finance," A.L.I.-A.B.A. (1990 and 1992-1995)
  • Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, 1972-1976

Awards & Honors

  • New York Super Lawyers (2006)
  • Best Lawyers in America (2009-2012)

Professional & Civic Activities

  • New York Bar Association

Education

  • J.D., magna cum laude, Catholic University Columbus School of Law, 1968 (Editor-in-Chief for the Catholic University Law Review from 1967-1968)
  • B.E.E., Catholic University, 1965
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