MICHELE NUDELMAN’s practice focuses on distressed and special situation financings as well as leveraged and investment-grade lending, acquisition financings, asset-based financings, real estate financings, and general corporate governance matters in a wide variety of industries. Michele also has experience with debtor-in-possession financings, in-court and out-of-court restructurings, intercreditor issues, and complex cross-border transactions involving multiple debt tranches and multiple lien priorities. Michele often advises on bespoke transactions that require cross-disciplinary capabilities.
Prior to joining Sidley, Michele worked at two other “Am Law 100” law firms, where she represented lenders, agents, financial institutions, initial purchasers, underwriters, and corporations with a focus on lending, capital markets, and derivative transactions including high-yield and investment-grade bond offerings, initial public and secondary equity offerings, commercial paper programs, medium-term note programs, bridge financing commitments, exchange offers, tender offers, and consent solicitations. Additionally, she spent more than a year on a legal secondment to a bulge bracket investment bank serving as in-house counsel to its fixed-income desk in New York and its debt capital markets desk in London.
Michele was recognized in the 2024 “Women in Secured Finance” list by The Secured Lender and was the “Business Track Winner” in the 2007 Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest.