Troy Zander and Warren Biro bring extensive
experience representing banks and other lenders, companies and
agents across a range of sophisticated venture debt and other
commercial lending matters within technology, life sciences and
middle-market financing transactions
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a multidisciplinary,
integrated professional services firm, today announced the arrival
of Financial Services Partners Troy Zander and Warren Biro to the
Firm’s San Diego and Los Angeles offices, respectively. Zander and
Biro’s clients span financial institutions, private equity firms
and other institutional lenders across the entire venture debt,
private credit and commercial lending spaces and within the
technology, fintech and life sciences sectors, specifically.
“We could not be more excited to welcome Troy and Warren as we
continue expanding our financial services, life sciences, corporate
and digital and technology capabilities across the country as well
as our Los Angeles and growing San Diego offices locally,” said
Manatt CEO and Managing Partner Donna L. Wilson. “They are leading
practitioners in venture debt and within the key sectors in which
we focus, so will thrive as they connect with and collaborate
across our teams in areas including financial services, emerging
company, venture capital, health care, entertainment, and digital
and technology.”
Zander represents companies, lenders and related stakeholders in
documenting their technology, life sciences and middle-market
financing transactions, including traditional commercial leveraged
debt financings, venture debt financings and bridge loans. He has
background working with companies, secured and unsecured creditors,
committees, trustees and asset purchasers in bankruptcy and
out-of-court proceedings and supporting clients and lenders in
forbearances, loan modifications and restructurings, work-outs and
asset acquisitions and dispositions. Zander also has deep
experience with asset-based and cash-flow lending transactions,
from single-lender and single-borrower facilities to complex,
global multi-tranche and onshore/offshore syndications.
Biro’s practice focuses on representing clients in a variety of
commercial lending and financing transactions, including
asset-based and cash flow credit facilities, venture debt
financings and leveraged acquisitions. He offers guidance to key
stakeholders—including investment banks, commercial banks and other
sources of debt capital—in the technology, life sciences and
fintech space. He has also represented agents, lenders,
participants and companies in numerous credit facilities and works
with lenders and production companies in the entertainment industry
on their television, digital media and film-related financings.
“Venture debt and commercial lending requires a uniquely deep
understanding of the interplay between innovation and financial
services, which Troy and Warren bring to the Firm through their
unmatched experience helping banks and other lenders navigate the
legal, business and regulatory aspects of these complex deals,”
said Financial Services Leader Craig Miller. “Their arrival is also
the latest example of our continued growth across all corners of
our Financial Services group, as recently seen with the arrival of
Mike Katz to our fintech team led by Partner Brian Korn, and
Jessica Sklute to our Consumer Financial Services practice led by
Partner Scott Pearson.”
"I have always been drawn to Manatt’s unique legal and
consulting model, which brings a business and industry-centric lens
to every piece of client work the Firm handles,” said Zander. “I
have always viewed myself as an advisor first to my clients, so am
looking forward to working alongside other lawyers and consultants
who share this philosophy.”
“Manatt has an entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit that is
rarely seen in practice at other firms,” Biro said. “I am excited
to join a Firm that prioritizes this mindset which brings
tremendous value to our clients.”
Biro and Zander join the Firm’s expanding roster of recent legal
and consulting professional hires across the Firm’s core practices,
including Corporate and Finance (Bill Broome); Digital and
Technology (Tim Andrews and Lisa W. Rosaya); Entertainment (Binta
Niambi Brown); Financial Services (Mike Katz and Jessica Sklute);
Health Care (Heide Bajnrauh, Axel Bernabe, Robert (Rob) Fraiman,
Seth Frazier, Eric Gold, Paul Irving, Dr. Tracy Johnson, Anna
Lansky, John O’Brien, Thomas (Tom) Robertson, Lisa Sbrana and Mark
Wietecha); and Litigation (Schuyler G. Carroll, Dylan Carson, Randy
S. Grossman, Kareem A. Salem and Justin Wolosz).
Zander earned his J.D. from the University of San Diego School
of Law and his B.A. from the University of California San
Diego.
Biro earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and his B.A.
from Rutgers University.
About Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, is a leading professional
services firm, providing integrated legal and consulting services
to a global client base. With offices strategically located in
California (Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco,
Sacramento and Silicon Valley), New York (New York City and
Albany), Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston, the Firm represents
sophisticated clients—including Fortune 500, middle-market and
emerging companies—across a range of industry sectors such as
health care; financial services; entertainment; digital and
technology; and energy, environmental and real estate. For more
information, visit www.manatt.com.
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