Jeremy S. Friedberg advises private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, investors, business owners, and management teams in sophisticated mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, leveraged transactions, and other complex corporate matters.
Jeremy has extensive experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies throughout the investment lifecycle. His clients include funds with complex organizational structures managing more than $1 billion in invested capital. He advises sponsors and portfolio companies in connection with platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, financing transactions, restructurings, corporate governance, asset management, and ongoing operational matters.
His mergers and acquisitions practice encompasses the purchase and sale of operating businesses, stock and asset transactions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other transformative transactions involving privately held and growth-oriented companies. Jeremy works closely with sponsors, investors, founders, and senior management on transaction structure, negotiation, acquisition financing, rollover equity, governance, risk allocation, and execution.
A distinguishing feature of Jeremy’s practice is the breadth of his experience across corporate transactions, private equity, and commercial finance. Before entering the practice of law, he gained commercial lending experience with G.M.A.C. and Fidelcor Business Credit Corporation, now part of The CIT Group. That background gives him a practical understanding of leverage, credit, collateral, and transaction risk that is particularly valuable in sponsor-backed and acquisition-finance transactions.
Jeremy also serves as outside general counsel to businesses in the technology, telecommunications, energy infrastructure, private equity, beverage distribution, and other industries. In that role, he advises boards, executives, investors, and owners on acquisitions, corporate governance, financing, ownership matters, commercial agreements, strategic initiatives, and significant business decisions. His longstanding work with operating companies provides him with an understanding of the challenges sponsors and management teams face both during and after a transaction.
In addition to his transactional practice, Jeremy has substantial experience with restructurings, workouts, distressed transactions, and complex commercial disputes. His litigation experience includes complex fraud matters, business divorce litigation, creditors’ rights disputes, and other significant commercial controversies. Several matters he has handled have resulted in reported federal appellate decisions, including cases in which the United States Supreme Court declined further review.
Jeremy has held prominent leadership positions in the national business and commercial law community. His positions and professional affiliations include:
– Regent, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
– Fellow, American Bar Foundation
– Past Chair, American Bar Association Business Law Section, Commercial Finance Committee
– Past President, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
– Past Director, Publications Board, American Bar Association Business Law Section
– Past Chair, ABA Litigation Section, Creditors’ Rights Litigation Subcommittee
– Past Chair, ABA Business Law Section, Commercial Loan Documentation Subcommittee
– Past Chair, Maryland State Bar Association Business Law Section, Uniform Commercial Code Committee
– Past Director, ABA Diversity Committee
Jeremy has also been recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers for over a decade and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Jeremy received a joint J.D./M.B.A., **cum laude**, from Albany Law School of Union University. He graduated near the top of his class and served as Associate Editor of the *Albany Law Review*.
He is admitted to practice in Maryland, Virginia, New York, and the District of Columbia, as well as before numerous federal courts, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.
– *Expeditors Int’l of Wash. v. EZR Packing Corp.*, Civil No. 25-2902-BAH (D. Md. June 1, 2026)
– *In re Raocore Technology LLC* (Bankr. D.D.C. 2025)
– *In re Nuovo Ciao-Di, LLC*, 650 B.R. 785 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2023)
– *Town Center Flats, LLC v. ECP Commercial II LLC*, 727 Fed. Appx. 114 (6th Cir. 2018), cert. denied
– *In re Forest Capital, LLC*, 579 B.R. 56 (Bankr. D. Md. 2017)
– *ECP Commercial II LLC v. Town Center Flats, LLC*, 855 F.3d 721 (6th Cir. 2017), cert. denied
– *Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. National Gasoline, Inc.*, 2013 WL 1822288 (E.D.N.Y. 2013), aff’d, 577 Fed. Appx. 58 (2d Cir. 2014)
– *King v. States Resources Corp.*, 233 Fed. Appx. 233 (D.C. Cir. 2007), cert. denied
– *The CIT Group/Equipment Financing, Inc. v. Asterbadi*, 124 Fed. Appx. 808 (4th Cir. 2005)
Jeremy is a frequent speaker on private equity, acquisition finance, commercial lending, secured transactions, restructuring, and creditors’ rights. Selected presentations include:
– **Levering-Up, IRR, and Cash on Cash: Identifying and Understanding the Unique Environment of Private Equity Funds for Asset Based Lending Lawyers**, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, 2023
– **Lending To and Borrowing From Private Equity Funds: Identifying and Understanding the Unique Requirements of Private Equity Funds as Borrower and as Lender**, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, 2018
– **CISG, LC, FOB and the UCC: International Finance of Goods**, American Bar Association, 2015
– **Take the Fight Outside! Dispute Resolution in Commercial Finance—Protecting the Value of the Deal**, American Bar Association, 2014
– **Advanced Issues in Guaranties and Suretyship**, American Bar Association, 2014
– **Loan Restructuring: Let’s Make a (New) Deal**, American Bar Association, 2009
– **After the Default: Litigation Under UCC Article 9**, American Bar Association, 2006
– **Anatomy of a Deal—A Secured Transaction from the Cradle to the Grave**, Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, 2004
Jeremy has authored and contributed to numerous publications concerning commercial finance, secured transactions, guaranties, and business law, including:
– *Commercial Lending Law, Third Edition: A Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law* (2023)
– *Commercial Lending Law, Second Edition: A Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law* (2016)
– *The Law of Guaranties: A Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law* (2013)
– *Commercial Lending Law: A State-by-State Guide* (2009)
– *Forms Under Article 9 of the UCC, Second Edition* (2009), Contributing Author
– “Office of Foreign Asset Control: Do You Really Know Who Your Borrower Is?” (2008)
– “On Second Thought … Modifying a Loan to Avoid Bankruptcy” (2005)
– “The New UCC Article 9—Evolution or Revolution?” (1999)