Jeff has deep expertise in banking and finance law, as well as corporate restructuring and reorganization. Jeff has extensive experience in loan negotiations, real estate finance, and tax-enhanced investment structures. He specializes in complex workout strategies, distressed asset management, and tax credit transactions, providing strategic guidance to lenders, developers, and investors in all stages of financial restructuring.
Jeff has represented borrowers, lenders, and investors in bankruptcy court, state courts, and out-of-court settlements throughout the United States. His practice encompasses Chapter 11 reorganizations, DIP financing negotiations, distressed asset acquisitions, and complex debt restructurings.
In the tax credit arena, Mr. Baddeley has extensive experience structuring and restructuring low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) and historic tax credit transactions. His work includes coordinating financing structures for affordable housing developments, negotiating with investors and developers, and ensuring regulatory compliance while preserving tax credit benefits.
Mr. Baddeley brings broad litigation experience to his restructuring practice, having first chaired arbitration resulting in multi-million dollar awards and successfully defending national banks against alleged violations of the Bank Holding Company Act.
Following a clerkship with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Mr. Baddeley served as partner in the Creditors Rights Groups at Baker & Hostetler and Ulmer & Berne, as partner in the Banking & Finance Group at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, and as associate in the Corporate Law Department at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
For more than ten years, Mr. Baddeley served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, sharing his expertise with the next generation of attorneys. His recognition includes being named among Ohio Super Lawyers and inclusion in Best Lawyers in America®. His civic leadership spans membership on the Board of Trustees of Greater Cleveland Volunteers, the Shaker Heights Board of Housing Appeals, the Board of the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral of Cleveland. Jeff received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he served as an Editor of the Law Review.