Overview
William Carpenter is a partner and member of Chapman's Banking and Financial Institutions Department and the Commercial Lending Group. William represents banks, financial institutions, and other businesses in a wide range of domestic and international financing transactions.
William’s experience includes structuring, negotiating, and documenting secured and unsecured credit facilities across industries, with a focus on asset-based lending, merger and acquisition financings, leveraged finance, and commercial lending. These transactions include first lien/second lien facilities, crossing-lien, senior and mezzanine facilities, unitranche facilities, cross-border financings, and loan syndications. He has negotiated credit facilities in the manufacturing, commodities, health care, transportation, food and agriculture, and software sectors. He also negotiates credit facilities with B2B and B2C lending and leasing companies and advises on floor plan financings.
In the legal community, William is a Fellow for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. He also regularly provides pro bono counsel to Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, where he represents children in familial disputes and safeguards their interests in guardianships.
At Chapman, William serves on the firm’s legal opinion committee. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a senior associate in the Banking Group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Representative Matters
- Represented the administrative agent in a $210 million syndicated floor plan credit facility for a large regional car dealership chain secured by substantially all assets of the dealership entities and related real estate assets
- Represented the administrative agent in a $329 million revolving and term loan cash flow credit facility to a national wireless phone reseller, secured by substantially all assets of the reseller
- Represented an administrative agent in a $44 million revolving cash flow credit facility to a regulated health care provider secured by substantially all assets
- Represented an administrative agent in connection with a $300 million ABL revolving credit facility to a consumer loan company including negotiated flexibility for securitization facilities and subordinated debt forming part of the capital structure.
- Represented an administrative agent in connection with a $150 million ABL revolving credit facility to a consumer loan company secured by substantially all assets
- Represented a lender in connection with three related ABL credit facilities totaling $570 million provided to family office investment vehicles
- Represented an administrative agent in connection with a $75 million tax-exempt conduit lease financing for an aerospace project
Admitted
Illinois
Education
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2016
- Journal of International Law and Business, Managing Editor
Tufts University, B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, 2012
