Stephen T WhelanStephen T. Whelan is a partner in the New York office of law firm Blank Rome LLP, where he concentrates his practice on lease financings, securitization, energy finance and secured lending. Mr. Whelan is a graduate of Princeton University and HarvardLaw School, has been a member of the ELFA Board of Directors and Legal Committee, Chair of the American Bar Association Subcommittee on Leasing, and a Visiting Lecturer on constitutional law at Princeton University.
Steve represents lenders, lessors, trustees, credit enhancers and arrangers in lease financings for aircraft, railcar, vehicle, maritime, medical, business, energy, and telecommunications equipment, as well as industrial housing and education projects. He also represents originators, investment banks, credit enhancers, trustees and investors in syndication and securitization of transportation assets, equipment leases, auto loans, energy saving performance contracts, healthcare receivables, export receivables and other financial assets.
Mr. Whelan is co-author of the ABA Annual Survey on Developments in the Law of Leases. He has authored four books on U.C.C. Article 2A and the "Securitization" chapters in the Matthew Bender & Co. treatises on Commercial Finance and Equipment Leasing.
Among his pro bono activities, Steve is chairman of The Witherspoon Institute (Princeton, NJ); an advisory council member of the James Madison Program (Princeton University) and the Atlantic Legal Foundation (public interest law firm); member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Academic Freedom Alliance; and a trustee of the American Council on Science and Health and the Cloister Inn of Princeton University. Read More Read Less