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

• Journal of Law & Politics, contributor
• Virginia Law & Business Review, contributor

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