Ellen G. Dorsten

Ellen has led complex, innovative engagements across diverse sectors ranging from fintech and telecommunications to hospitality and apparel. She has experience with a variety of capital arrangements and transaction structures including cross-border facilities, acquisition and project financings, workouts and restructurings, private placement offerings, structured finance, and securitizations.

Ellen has handled substantial financing matters for regional, super-regional, and national banks as well as non-bank and direct lenders, public companies, and private equity sponsors. 

Prior to joining Calfee in 2024, Ellen was a financial markets attorney with an international law firm and held in-house counsel roles at a multinational bank and a venture-backed financial technology start-up.

Ellen earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a contributor to the Journal of Law & Politics and Virginia Law & Business Review.

Ellen graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in Political Science; she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Education

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2013

B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, The Ohio State University, 2010

Experience

Corporate Borrower Representation

Representation of NYSE and NASDAQ-listed and privately held corporate borrowers in a variety of financing transactions totaling over $15.0 billion, including:

• Term Loan "A" and Term Loan "B" Facilities
• Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facilities
• Asset-Based Revolving Credit Facilities
• Committed Acquisition Financing
• Investment Grade Financing
• FILO Facilities
• Cross-Border Financings
• Private Placement Notes
• Preferred Equity
• Project Financing
• A/R Receivables Facilities, Securitizations, and other Structured Financings
• Workouts and Restructurings

Lender Representation

Representation of regional, super-regional, and national banks, as well as non-bank and direct lenders, in:

• Loans to public, private, and sponsor-backed borrowers with operations throughout North America, Europe, South America, and Asia
• Acquisitions, refinancings, and general-purpose financings
• Novel financing structures, including to accommodate liability management transactions, corporate reorganizations and strategic recapitalizations

Sponsor Representation

Representation of private equity sponsors, including:

• A middle-market private equity sponsor specializing in industrial businesses, in financing transactions in excess of $500 million, encompassing leveraged acquisition financings, carve-out transactions, and dividend recapitalizations
• A private equity sponsor focusing on the smaller middle market in a range of leveraged acquisition financings for portfolio companies ranging from $5 million - $50+ million in EBITDA
• A lower middle market private equity sponsor in various fund line facilities, including subscription lines and management fee lines of credit