Cooley Expands Debt Finance Practice With Partner Hire in New York

New York – June 3, 2025 – Adam Longenbach has joined Cooley’s New York office as a partner in the firm’s debt finance practice. He brings more than 10 years of experience in corporate and securities law, with a particular focus on acquisition financing and debt restructuring transactions.

“Expanding Cooley’s debt finance practice is a key strategic priority of the firm, and we’re excited for Adam to join our growing team,” said Sonya Erickson, Cooley partner and global chair of the firm’s business department. “His impressive track record will greatly benefit our existing and future clients and enhance the debt finance team’s ability to serve private equity sponsors, private credit funds and large, late-stage private and public companies.”

“We are incredibly excited to welcome Adam to Cooley,” said Michael Tollini, Cooley partner and chair of the firm’s debt finance practice group. “Adam’s broad skill set is critical to our growth as we continue to expand our platform’s capabilities to meet growing demand across our client base.”

“With Cooley’s strong emphasis on culture firmwide and its distinguished reputation in debt finance, I’m thrilled to be here,” said Longenbach. “I look forward to counseling Cooley’s dynamic and broad client base on the most sophisticated debt transactions in the market.”

Longenbach joins from Paul, Weiss, where he worked on a spectrum of debt finance matters, including private credit, private equity sponsor financings, debt restructurings and leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings.

With experience spanning the globe, Cooley’s debt finance team advises on a range of transactions, including convertible note offerings, credit facilities (bank loans and private credit/direct lending), structured life sciences transactions, high-yield and investment-grade bond offerings, acquisition finance, fund finance and venture debt.

Since 2020, Cooley’s debt team has closed 1,500+ deals representing more than $170 billion in aggregate financing proceeds. The team is consistently recognized by Chambers and The Legal 500 in both banking and finance and debt capital markets, and was noted by Prospect News as a top law firm advising issuers on convertible notes offerings by number of transactions.

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