Braden Shaw focuses his practice on commercial lending and leveraged finance. He advises banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, and corporate borrowers in the structuring, documentation, and negotiation of a broad range of loan facilities, including syndicated, bilateral, leveraged, asset-based, cash flow, mezzanine, and acquisition financings.
Prior to joining Jones Day in 2026, Braden handled many multimillion dollar transactions representing borrowers and lenders in various types of debt and financing facilities. Such transactions included the representation of a borrower in the convenience store industry in connection with its $900 million syndicated credit facility, a national bank in connection with a loan portfolio sale with a purchase price of approximately $400 million, various private equity sponsors in connection with acquisition debt financings and the ongoing debt support of its various portfolio companies throughout all stages of the investment life cycle, the sole lender in connection with an equity to mortgage loan acquisition financing in the carbon offset market covering approximately 900,000 acres of timberland and timberland rights located across numerous states, a national bank in its role as administrative agent in a $160 million revolving credit facility to a regional retail chain in the farming and equipment industry, and a private credit lender in numerous cash flow and ABL (asset-based lending) structured loan transactions to middle market borrowers across various industries.
- DePaul University (J.D. cum laude 2014); Benedictine University (B.A. 2011)
- Illinois
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for banking and finance law (2026)