Robert Heinrich is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice and Sports Industry Team.
Mr. Heinrich regularly advises public and private borrowers and issuers in structuring, documenting and administering a wide range of complex finance transactions. Mr. Heinrich’s experience includes:
- secured and unsecured, senior and subordinated, investment grade and below investment grade, revolving and term, syndicated, participated and bilateral and domestic, international and multicurrency credit facilities and indentures; and
- securitization and other structured finance transactions, including securitizations of a variety of asset classes (such as trade receivables, student loans, credit card receivables and health care receivables), equipment lease financings, real property tenant-in-common transactions and mortgage loan repurchase facilities.
Mr. Heinrich also has extensive experience with the negotiation and delivery of true sale opinions, non-consolidation opinions and true lease opinions in structured finance transactions and other financial asset sale transactions in the secondary market. Such opinions include:
- true sale and non-consolidation opinions with respect to the securitization of the asset classes described above;
- non-consolidation opinions in tenant-in-common transactions;
- non-consolidation opinions in military housing privatization transactions; and
- true sale opinions with respect to mortgage loans sold under the Fannie Mae DUS and single family programs and the Federal Home Loan Banks' mortgage purchase programs.
Mr. Heinrich also has negotiated a variety of derivative instruments and liquidity and credit enhancement documents.
Prior to his employment with Foley, Mr. Heinrich worked as an associate in the securitization practice group of Mayer Brown LLP, and as a law clerk to the Hon. S. Martin Teel, Jr., United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia.
Mr. Heinrich is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he earned his J.D. in 1998, cum laude. His bachelor’s degree is from Marquette University (B.S., 1995), where he graduated summa cum laude with majors in business economics, business administration (specialization: international business) and German and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma.
Mr. Heinrich served for several years on the Economic Development Board for the City of Mequon, Wisconsin. The board serves in an advisory role to the city’s planning commission and common council.
Mr. Heinrich is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and the Illinois State Bar Association.
Presentations and Publications:
- "What Solar Companies Need to Know," Infocast Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit 2013, March 18, 2013
- "Negotiating Loan Documents in Today's Environment,” Wisconsin Association for Financial Professionals, September 18, 2012
- “Negotiating Loan Documents in Today’s Environment,” Association for Financial Professionals 2011 Annual Conference, Boston, November 7, 2011
- Quoted, “Fees for All: What’s New in Bank Lending--Including the Fallout From Dodd-Frank,” AFP Exchange, January/February 2011 issue
- “Protect Yourself: Negotiating a Credit Facility in Today’s Environment?” Association for Financial Professionals 2011 Annual Conference, San Antonio, November 10, 2010
- “Negotiating Real Estate Loan Terms and Workout Options,” National Business Institute, Milwaukee, February 11, 2010