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Ellen J. Toscano is a director in the law firm of Ray Quinney & Nebeker in Salt Lake City, and is a member of the Firm�s Banking and Finance Section. She joined the Firm in 1995. Ms. Toscano specializes in equipment leasing, commercial law, commercial finance transactions, commercial mortgage lending, contract review and related transactions. She has represented lessors and lenders for 25 years, having spent 9 of those years as in-house counsel for First Security Leasing Company (now Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, Inc.). She has worked on leveraged lease, middle market lease and small ticket lease transactions involving many different types of equipment, including aircraft, rolling stock, vessels and FF&E, as well as many other types of equipment. She has provided seminars for institutional clients and associations on a broad range of topics, including the Uniform Commercial Code and equipment leasing. Ms. Toscano is also a member of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association and the Banking and Finance Section of the Utah State Bar.
Ms. Toscano has been voted by her peers throughout the state as one of Utah's "Legal Elite" in the category of Banking / Financial Law (as published in Utah Business Magazine).
RECENT REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS
Counsel for a trustee in a $1.9 billion aircraft securitization.
Representation of an industrial loan corporation in transactions involving the acquisition and leasing of three Boeing 737 aircraft.
Representation of a leasing company in a $6 million aircraft transaction.
Representation of a leasing company in a $3 million aircraft engine transaction.
Representation of a fixed base operator in the sale of a Piper Saratoga aircraft.
Representation of a fixed base operator in the documentation of Part 135 aircraft charter documents.
Representation of an industrial loan corporation in the documentation of a $1.5 million revolving loan transaction.
Representation of an industrial loan corporation with FDIC and Bank Secrecy Act compliance issues.
Counsel for a real estate broker in a $16.4 million tenants-in-common transaction.
Representation of an industrial loan corporation in the documentation of the purchase, lease and subsequent sublease of a commercial building.
EDUCATION
J. Reuben Clark Law School, J.D., 1982
Moot Court Member and Moot Court Competition Winner
President of Law Women's Association
Dickinson College, B.A., French, 1976
magna cum laude
PRACTICE AREAS
Banking and Financial Institutions
Commercial Law and Finance
Commercial Mortgage Lending
Equipment Leasing
PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In-house Counsel for First Security Leasing Company - 1986-1995
In-house Counsel for Commercial Security Bank (now KeyBank) - 1983-1985
Callister, Duncan & Nebeker - 1981-1983
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
Utah State Bar
United States District Court for the District of Utah, 1982
Supreme Court of Utah, 1982
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Utah State Bar, Banking and Finance Section
Salt Lake County Bar Association
Equipment Leasing and Finance Association | 