Ms. Katie VanderVeen is a Member in Dickinson Wright’s Banking and Finance Group. Based in Denver, Katie’s practice focuses on transactions involving debt financing, whether syndicated or single-lender, secured or unsecured, cash-flow or asset-based. Katie regularly handles transaction-specific loans such as real estate financing, construction financing, acquisition financing, and recapitalizations. Katie assists clients with all aspects of commercial finance transactions, including initial structuring and documentation, modifications and amendments, and restructurings and refinancings. Katie counsels lenders and borrowers alike, as well as agents, participants, sponsors, and other owners. Katie specializes in loans to regulated industries, including cannabis (single state and MSOs, vertical and horizontal operations, and more) and healthcare (medical and dental), and handles cross-border transactions. In connection with the pandemic, Katie advises clients on PPP loan matters.

Katie also assists corporate clients with a variety of business matters and, in particular, commercial contracts.