Overview
Practice Areas
Industry Experience
Sol W. Bernstein is Of Counsel with the firm’s Corporate Group and Banking & Finance Team.
Sol is an accomplished commercial lending attorney with more than 35 years of law firm and in-house experience as counsel to domestic and foreign banks and other lenders. He has extensive experience documenting middle market loans and syndicated credit facilities, with special focus in all areas of commercial lending, including leveraged, structured and acquisition finance, asset-based finance, cross-border and multicurrency lending, private banking, supply chain finance, commodity finance, insurance premium finance, syndications, participations, letters of credit, trade finance, public finance, derivatives, restructurings, sales of distressed debt and workouts.
As a result of his many years of experience, Sol has unique insight when it comes to lending to various industries including apparel, tech, healthcare and finance companies.
Immediately prior to joining the firm, Sol was in-house transactional lending counsel at Valley National Bank. His previous in-house positions were at Bank Leumi USA, Citibank, Amalgamated Bank and NatWest USA. He has also been a banking partner with several law firms in the New York metropolitan area.
Honors
- Recipient, Bank Leumi USA, Champions Award (2019)
- Recipient, Citibank, Pathfinder Award for creative excellence in structuring and closing an Asian market syndicated cross-border credit facility (2015)
Involvement
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- New Jersey State Bar Association, Banking Law Committee
- New York State Bar Association, Banking Law Committee
- Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
Education
- Duke University School of Law (J.D.)
- Brandeis University (B.A.)
Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York