Paula Pace practices in the area of lender representation and corporate finance.  Her experience includes the structuring, negotiation, documentation and administration of all kinds of debt issues and credit facilities, private placements, public issues, structured finance, syndicated, secured and unsecured senior debt, second lien lending, mezzanine debt, letter of credit facilities, acquisition financing, working capital, asset-based and bankruptcy debtor-in-possession.  Ms. Pace has negotiated a number of treasury and derivative agreements on behalf of corporate clients.  She also has counseled clients in connection with workouts, restructurings and bankruptcies.  Ms. Pace’s securitization experience includes drafting and negotiation of nonconsolidation opinions.

Practices and Industries: commercial lending, asset based lending, leveraged lending, media and broadcast, health care lending

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 1984

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City, J.D., 1984

Missouri State University, B.S., 1980

Publications

• "Missouri Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code," Data Trace Publishing Company, Spring 2002, (co-authored with Cheryl D.S. Walker, a firm colleague)