Jordan Klein
Partner
Co-Chair, Asset-Based Lending Practice & Co-Chair, Financial Services Industry Group
Co-Chair of both Winston’s Asset-Based Lending Practice and Financial Services Industry Group, Jordan is recognized as one of the country’s go-to lawyers in asset-based lending and in the lender finance space, and has extensive experience advising clients in cash flow, leveraged, real estate, and other financial transactions.
Jordan routinely advises banks, finance companies, and other lenders in complex credit transactions. He has extensive experience with various types of debt financings, including asset-based lending and cash-flow transactions, senior secured first lien and second lien loan financings, unitranche loan financings, and mezzanine loan financings. In addition, Jordan represents financial institutions in troubled loans/distressed lending transactions, loan workouts, restructurings, and debtor-in-possession financings. His practice also includes negotiating various intercreditor and subordination agreements in 1st lien/2nd lien, split collateral, and mezzanine financing scenarios.
Recent Experience
Jordan has received numerous industry awards, including Best Lawyers in America®for Banking and Finance Law in 2024, “Best Lawyers in Dallas” by D Magazine from 2016–2024, the prestigious “40 Under 40” awards from the Commercial Finance Association and the Dallas Business Journal in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and “Emerging Leader” in the field of commercial finance by The M&A Advisor in 2017.
Board Member on the Texas Exes Finance Committee
Credentials
Education
Jordan received a B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 2006.
Admissions
- Texas
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Speaking Engagements
- Moderator, "DIP Lending Opportunities and Article 9 Transactions," SFNet Annual Convention, November 2021
- Panelist, "State of the PE World–What's Next?" SFNet Annual Convention, November 2021
- Panelist, “Business and Corporate Lending – The Lawyer’s Perspective,” Dallas Bar Association, September 2021
- Moderator, “Confronting Industry Legal Issues: From a Business Person's Perspective in a Bad Economy,” SFNet Annual Convention, November 2020
- Moderator, “Changing of the Guard - ABL/Industry Leaders Under 50 Panel,” SFNet YoPro Leadership Summit, Chicago, August 2019
December 5, 2022
April 29, 2021
May 20, 2020