Tony Yager

Partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP

Tony Yager is the Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Corporate Finance

Department and has been with Chapman and Cutler LLP since 1989.

Tony’s experience primarily includes representation of financial institutions and

strategic investors in connection with investing in and restructuring domestic and

international direct placements of debt and equity securities in secured and

unsecured financings, including merger and acquisition, mezzanine, venture

capital, sports finance, real estate, project finance, hedge and equity funds, and

general corporate financings. He has also helped organize, represent, and secure

funding for start-up businesses.

Tony spoke as a panelist at the Canadian Cross-Border Private Placements

conference sponsored by TD Securities Inc. and Chapman and Cutler, and as a

panelist at the spring 2011 (financial covenants) and the fall 2015 (sports finance) ACIC conferences. He was also Co-host of the Spring

2014 ACIC conference and has been the Chairman of the annual IIR Private

Placement Industry Forum since 2013. Mr. Yager is also a Registered Certified Accountant in the State of Illinois.