Publications
Transportation Finance Digest
Professionals
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Jessica R. Berenyi
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Ms. Berenyi is an associate in Pillsbury's Finance practice section. Ms. Berenyi represents borrowers, agents, arrangers and commercial lenders in a variety of domestic and international finance transactions, including aircraft financings, bank financings and project financings. Her bank financing assignments have included representing U.S. and international commercial banks and companies in secured and unsecured multi-tranche, multi-currency financings. She also assisted with the acquisition of troubled assets in connection with the worldwide financial crisis of 2007-2009.
Further, Ms. Berenyi has experience acting as counsel to airlines, lessors and financial institutions in both financial and commercial transportation matters, with a primary focus on Export Credit Agency financings. Notable recent transportation finance deals that Ms. Berenyi has worked on have received the following awards:
- 2012 Americas Deal of the Year, Willis Engine Securitization Trust II Transaction, Airline Economics
- 2012 Engine Finance Deal of the Year, Willis Engine Securitization Trust II Transaction, Global Transport Finance
- 2012 Best Global Export Credit Agency/Development Finance Institution Law Firm, Trade Finance Journal
- 2010 African Aircraft Debt Deal of the Year, Ethiopian Airlines Financing, Jane's Transport Finance
New York City Bar Association, Ted Dalton American Inn of Court
External Publications
Bylined Article—Understanding the Hidden Risks of Negative Pledges of IP, Venture Capital Journal, October 2009
Note, “Appropriate Action,” Inappropriately Defined: Amending the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev., 639, 2008
Other Recognition
Lead Articles Editor, Washington and Lee Law Review
Winner, Best Brief, Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Competition

