Jane K. Springwater
Jane
K. Springwater is a partner with Friedman Dumas & Springwater
LLP. Ms. Springwater's primary areas of practice are Commercial
Finance and Creditor's Rights and Remedies.
Ms.
Springwater specializes in commercial lending and creditors'
rights and remedies. She has expertise in commercial financing
transactions, with an emphasis on accounts receivable lending,
as well as out-of-court workouts and Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
She has represented purchasers of companies in bankruptcy,
creditors in relief from stay motions, and lenders in postpetition
financing and use of cash collateral motions in Chapter 11
cases. Ms. Springwater has represented lenders and agents
in senior, bridge and subordinated credit facilities, and
worked on venture lending and leasing transactions. She has
also represented secured creditors in private and public foreclosure
sales.
Ms.
Springwater currently serves on the State Bar of California
Uniform Commercial Code Committee, where she previously served
from 1992-1994. Ms. Springwater recently lectured on hidden
liens at the 2008 State Bar Association of California's Annual
Meeting. Ms. Springwater has served as the Educational Liaison
for the Commercial Finance Association of Northern California
since 1999. Ms. Springwater was a panelist at a commercial
lending seminar hosted by Lorman Education Services in August
2006, co-chaired the CFA's Asset Based Distressed Debt Program
in April 2003 where she lectured on post-petition financing
and use of cash collateral, and co-chaired the Spring 2000
Asset Based Lending Program where she lectured on subordination
agreements and tax liens.
In
addition to her legal work, Ms. Springwater served as President
of the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, the Peninsula,
Marin and Sonoma Counties from 1998 - 2000, continued her
leadership role on the Board of Directors of the Bureau through
2003, has performed pro-bono work for the Jewish community,
and in 2003 was awarded a two-year fellowship for the development
of Jewish leadership by the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Ms.
Springwater received a B.F.A with honors from Washington University
in St. Louis in 1976 and a J.D. from Washington University
in 1981. She was a member of the law review and published
“Due on Sale Clause Not an Unreasonable Restraint on Alienation,"
59 Washington University Law Quarterly, 1047 (1981) and Comment,
“Inverse Condemnation Unavailable as Remedy for Deprivation
of Property Value by City Zoning Ordinance,” 1979 Washington
University Law Quarterly 1121 (1979). Ms Springwater is a
member of the State Bar of California.
