Director
Deneese Walia Levin is a corporate partner who primarily focuses her practice on debt financing transactions. Deneese represents private equity groups, commercial lending institutions and other private and public companies in connection with the negotiation, structuring and documentation of secured and unsecured financing transactions for both borrowers and lenders, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt transactions, acquisition financings, and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings.
Deneese holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and American culture from Northwestern University and a juris doctor from University of Chicago Law School. She is on the board of High Jump, and lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.