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Sherry Dreisewerd
Partner
Banking and Financial Services Practice Group Leader
Overview
Sherry Dreisewerd helps lenders close complex financial transactions. Sherry works with national, regional, and community banks to originate real estate, commercial, industrial, and asset-based loans.
She also helps lenders maximize loan recoveries through restructurings and workouts, and has assisted numerous secured creditors, creditors’ committees, and business acquirers in bankruptcy proceedings.
Credentials
Education
- Washington University School of Law, 1998 (J.D.)
- Washington University, 1994 (B.A.), Phi Beta Kappa
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1998
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, 2008
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2000
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 2000
- Represented a key lender in connection with the complex construction financing for the renovation of the Peabody Opera House.
- Represented numerous regional and national lenders in connection with financing the construction and rehabilitation of assisted and skilled nursing facilities, hotels, shopping centers, and multi-family properties.
- Represented numerous banks in connection with the issuance of letters of credit to provide credit support for municipal bond transactions.
- Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, 2024-2025
- Phi Beta Kappa
- American Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- Turnaround Management Association
- Missouri Bankers’ Association Bank Counsel Section
- MS Center of Saint Louis, Board Member
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) of St. Louis, Advisory Board Member