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Kenneth P. Weinberg

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Ken Weinberg is a nationally recognized equipment finance attorney with more than 25 years of experience advising banks, independent and captive finance companies, investors, and other market participants on complex equipment finance and structured finance.

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  • University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 1999, cum laude
    • Executive Articles Editor – Journal of Intellectual Property Law
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1996, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
  • Alabama, 1999

Ken has represented clients in equipment leasing and finance transactions involving billions of dollars, including being lead counsel on individual transactions as large as $400 million. His experience spans true lease structures, synthetic leases, and secured financings, as well as more traditional lending transactions, construction and interim financings, vendor finance programs, syndications, portfolio acquisitions, warehouse facilities, and project finance transactions.

Ken has developed transaction documentation used by several of the nation's largest equipment leasing and finance companies in connection with a wide range of leasing, financing, and syndication transactions.

A prolific author and frequent speaker, Ken has published more than 100 articles in leading industry and legal publications, including The Monitor, and regularly presented at client programs and industry conferences. He has also served on numerous occasions as an expert witness in litigation involving the syndication of equipment leases and financings. His extensive industry experience allows him to provide nuanced guidance to clients on equipment leasing and finance regulatory and operational matters, including nationwide compliance, lien perfection, lessor liability, insurance requirements, and the implementation of electronic signature and electronic chattel paper policies and procedures.

Beyond his equipment finance practice, Ken advises lenders, investors, and project developers on U.S. and international energy finance transactions. His experience includes recourse and non-recourse financings and tax-oriented sale-leaseback transactions involving a variety of energy assets, including renewable energy facilities, waste-to-energy projects, solar generation assets, and natural gas-powered plants.

  • Represented a captive finance company in the sale of railcar assets and related lease portfolios in transactions totaling approximately $200 million.

  • Served as U.S. counsel in multiple cross-border financing transactions in Latin America, including a $148 million mining equipment financing, a $30 million construction-to-term loan financing for two power generation facilities, and an $11 million power plant financing.

  • Represented a lender in connection with a $62.5 million construction-to-term financing for a California landfill gas-to-electricity facility and the subsequent sale of a participation interest in the transaction.

  • Represented equipment finance subsidiaries of multiple financial institutions in connection with sale-leaseback transactions involving solar energy facilities in multiple states.

  • Represented a financial services company in the structuring, documentation, and closing of a complex non-recourse financing transaction involving five biogas energy facilities in California and a tax-exempt financing component with the California Pollution Control Finance Authority.

  • Represented a financial institution in a $50 million tractor-trailer financing involving a corporate acquisition and the subsequent syndication of interests in the transaction to multiple investors.

  • Represented a bank subsidiary in connection with a $20 million financing of vehicles involving a complex operating and fleet management structure utilized by the borrower and unaffiliated third parties, raising unique collateral issues.

  • Represented an equipment leasing and finance company in the acquisition of an equipment lease that included ongoing maintenance, warranty, and other lessor obligations, requiring analysis of bundling, true-sale, and other complex finance and structuring issues.

  • Represented a bank subsidiary in multiple acquisitions of interests in titling trusts related to TRAC and Split TRAC lease transactions, including vendor program-originated assets.

  • Recipient – Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) Edward A. Groobert Award for Legal Excellence (2023)
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Banking and Finance Law since 2023
  • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Selected by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell™ as a "Top Rated Lawyer in Banking & Finance Law"
  • Member – ELFA
    • Vice Chair, Energy Subcommittee (2019 – 2023)
    • Legal Committee Member (2018 – 2022)
  • Editorial Board Member – Equipment Leasing Newsletter, Law Journal Newsletters (LJN) (2016)
  • Author – "Dispatches from the Trenches," a regular column in Monitor, one of the equipment leasing and finance industry's most widely circulated publications (2002 – 2025)
  • "Advanced UCC," ELFA Legal Forum (May 2022)
  • "Legal Update," ELFA Legal Forum (May 2021)
  • "Merger-Up and Other Restructures," ELFA Legal Forum (May 2021)
  • "UCC Basics and Advanced," ELFA Legal Forum (May 2021)

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