Patricia J. Lane is a partner and corporate lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP with extensive experience representing corporate borrowers in complex financing arrangements. She is a member of the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice and Sports Industry Team.

Representative clients include Harley-Davidson, Inc., Johnson Controls, Inc., Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., Fiserv, Inc., Pentair, Inc., Oshkosh Corporation, Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Snap-on Incorporated, A.O. Smith Corporation, Journal Communications, Inc., Bemis Company, Inc., Regal-Beloit Corporation, Cummins Inc., MGIC Investment Corporation, Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Limited Partnership, Texas Rangers Baseball Club, and The Green Bay Packers.

In addition to traditional financings, she has extensive experience in acquisition financings representing corporate borrowers involved in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings, and other change-of-control financings. She also has structured warehouse lending facilities and has represented corporate borrowers in work-out transactions both inside and outside of bankruptcy including debtor-in-possession financings.

Ms. Lane has negotiated and documented a wide variety of derivative transactions, including interest rate and currency exchange agreements, equity index, total return, and other hedging transactions, as well as liquidity and credit enhancement measures.