Robert A. Trodella, Jr.

Rob began his career as a banker, graduating from Union Bank’s commercial lending training program, followed by several years as a relationship manager providing working capital, acquisition, and asset based loan facilities to middle-market companies, and real estate construction loans to homebuilders.  He then went to law school and has spent the last two-plus decades representing lenders and borrowers across a range of industries and types, in virtually all aspects of financial transactions and disputes.

His experience for lenders and borrowers includes syndicated, asset-based, DIP, REPO, leveraged, senior, subordinated, and cross-border loan facilities, as well as the restructuring, bankruptcy, and litigation matters related to them.  In that regard his practice differs from traditional finance attorneys, in that Rob has led multiple litigation and contested motion matters in and outside of bankruptcy court, which has informed his approach to the structuring of transactions on the front end.

Companies Rob has represented include Total Gas & Power, Wells Fargo Bank, U.S. Bank, SunPower Corporation, Apple Inc., MasterCard, University of San Francisco, Kimpton Hotels, Four Seasons Hotels, GE Capital, Strategic Restaurants Acquisition Company, Countrywide Corporation, Washington Mutual Bank, Credit Suisse, and Dine, S.A.B. de C.V.

Rob is a frequent speaker and writer on lending, real estate, corporate governance, and bankruptcy related topics.  He has presented at the annual meetings for the California State Bar, the California Bankruptcy Forum, the Arizona State Bar, and multiple financial institutions, and has been published by the American Bankruptcy Institute and The Deal Pipeline.  He is a former member of the California State Bar’s Uniform Commercial Code Committee, where he helped draft that Committee’s Hidden Liens Report for use by commercial law practitioners.