Collaborative, forward-looking commercial finance counsel

Melissa McCord represents both lenders and borrowers in complex commercial finance transactions. She has extensive experience with:

• Commercial loans and financing vehicles
• Acquisition financing representing private equity and strategic buyers
• Third-party legal opinions
• Post-closing counseling

Melissa collaborates closely with her clients to understand their long-term business plans and objectives and to assure that the terms of their financing align as closely as possible with their business goals. Prior to entering the practice of law, Melissa spent nine years as a journalist, mainly with the Associated Press.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Marquette University Law School (J.D., summa cum laude, 2009)
  • Marquette Law Review, editor-in-chief

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2018)

• Ohio University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1997)
  • Journalism

• "Deciphering the Federal Guidelines on the Paycheck Protection Program: What Every Attorney Should Know about Eligibility, Investigation, and Forgiveness"
• A Few Cautionary Notes on the COVID-19 Loans Available to Small Businesses
• Federal Stimulus Package Makes Loans Available to Small Businesses to Help Keep People Employed
• Federal Stimulus Package Makes Loans Available to Tribal Business Concerns to Help Keep People Employed
• FIL-53-2014 - Interagency Guidance on Leveraged Lending: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Hyped up over Hyperlinks: Court Decisions Tackle Enforceability of Online Terms and Conditions
• New “Paycheck Protection” Loan Program to Open April 3 for Small Businesses
• SBA Issues Guidance on PPP Borrower Changes of Ownership
• SBA Issues Loan Necessity Questionnaire for Recipients of Large PPP Loans
• SBA Offers Disaster Assistance Loans to Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
• Small Businesses Get Another Chance to Borrow Under Paycheck Protection Program
• Small Businesses Receive Another Round of SBA Recovery Loans
• “Paycheck Protection Program” Loans: SBA Guidance Continues to Trickle Out
• “Paycheck Protection” Loans: Congress Provides Borrowers With More Flexibility
• “Paycheck Protection” Loans: SBA Advises on How to Ask for Forgiveness
• “Paycheck Protection” Loans: SBA Answers Some Questions, Punts on Others
• “Paycheck Protection” Loans: SBA Issues More Guidance on the “Necessity” Certification

Seminar

• Deciphering the Federal Guidelines on the Paycheck Protection Program: What Every Attorney Should Know about Eligibility, Investigation, and Forgiveness