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Amy Olshansky is a Partner in the firm’s Corporate Finance Department. She has been with Chapman and Cutler LLP since 2001. Prior to joining Chapman and Cutler LLP, Ms. Olshansky was an associate in another Chicago law firm focusing on commercial real estate transactions and general financings. Ms. Olshansky’s experience includes the drafting, negotiation and review of a wide variety of corporate finance transactions. Ms. Olshansky’s experience primarily includes representation of financial institutions and other businesses in connection with domestic and international direct placements of senior and subordinated debt in secured and unsecured financings including real estate, public utilities, sports finance and general corporate financings. In 2005 alone, Ms. Olshansky was involved in new financings in excess of the equivalent of U.S. $2 Billion in the aggregate. These transactions ranged from U.S.$1 million to hundreds of millions of dollars. In these recent financings, issuers and guarantors and entities providing credit support included domestic entities as well as entities from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. Investors included entities from the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Representative recent transactions include: Represented U.S. and Irish institutional investors in the purchase of U.S.$725 Million fixed and floating rate notes issued by one of Australia’s largest gaming companies. Represented U.S. institutional investors in the Canadian dollar denominated private financing for a company whose assets included sporting franchises and a major sporting arena. Represented institutional investors in purchasing $200 million of Subordinated Term Notes of an Irish financial institution. Represented institutional investors in the purchase of $645 million floating rate senior notes issued by a private trust with office, retail and industrial properties in Hawaii and over a dozen states. Represented institutional investors in the purchase of over $5 million in general mortgage bonds from a New Hampshire water company. | 