Tyler E. Margolis

Partner

Tyler E. Margolis practices in the area of corporate finance.

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Tyler advises institutional investors, including insurance companies, finance companies, and banks on diverse financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border private placements of debt securities. He also represents middle-market lenders in secured and unsecured credit facilities for private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Tyler’s experience spans a number of industries, including REITs, public utilities, electric cooperatives, transportation, higher education, and general corporate finance. 

Client Work

Select Domestic Transaction Representations

  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $1.8 billion guaranteed senior notes of a diversified automotive company.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $1.3 billion first mortgage bonds of a regulated natural gas utility.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $525 million senior notes of a regulated natural gas utility.
  • Represented the purchasers of $250 million senior notes of an owner and operator of convenience stores.
  • Represented the purchasers of $550 million senior notes of a regulated natural gas utility, which proceeds supposed an acquisition of a Florida utility.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $415 million senior notes of a generation and transmission utility.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $375 million senior notes of a transmission and distribution utility.
  • Represented the purchasers of $125 million senior notes of a regional Caterpillar heavy equipment dealership.
  • Represented the purchasers of $125,860 first mortgage bonds of a generation and transmission cooperative utility.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $377 floating rate notes and $100 million fixed rate notes of an Australian company that designs, develops, and manufactures safety protection solutions.

REIT, Property Fund and Listed Property Trust Representations

  • Represented the purchasers of $3 billion guaranteed senior notes of an open-end private core real estate fund.
  • Represented the purchasers of $1 billion senior notes of a self-administered equity real estate investment trust focused on the development, acquisition, and operation of industrial properties.
  • Represented the purchasers of $900 million guaranteed senior notes of a private equity real estate property fund.
  • Represented the purchasers of €750 million guaranteed senior notes of a temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation real estate property fund.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $195 million and €191 million senior guaranteed notes of real estate investment trust focused on commercial real estate properties.
  • Represented the purchasers of an aggregate $1.6 billion of guaranteed senior notes of a self-storage real estate investment trust.
  • Represented the purchasers of $325 million guaranteed senior notes of an equity real estate investment trust focused on the development, acquisition and operation of properties leased to state governments.
  • Represented the purchasers of $200 million of guaranteed senior notes of a real estate investment trust focused on the ownership and management of convenience retail real estate.

Presentations and Publications

Presentations

  • “The New Administration’s Changing Priorities and the Impact on our Market,” (moderator) American College of Investment Counsel 2025 Fall Annual Meeting and Education Conference, New York, NY (Oct. 2025).
  • “Conflicts of Interest – Ethics,” (moderator) American College of Investment Counsel 2023 Spring Meeting and Education Conference, Chicago, IL (Apr. 2023).

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Boards, Memberships & Certifications

  • American Bar Association, Member
  • American College of Investment Counsel, Fellow
  • Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s Children’s Research Fund Junior Board, Treasurer

Previous Work

Before joining ArentFox Schiff, Tyler was an associate in the Corporate Group of a prominent New York City law firm. He represented financial institutions, institutional investors, and public companies in structuring and negotiating a broad range of finance and corporate matters, including asset-based loans, securitizations, institutional investments in FinTech platforms, and private middle-market mergers and acquisitions.

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