Instructors in the Banking & Financial Law program
Craig W. Kaylor
Craig W. Kaylor is the Vice President of Compliance of PeoplesBank in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Prior to this position, Mr. Kaylor was the general counsel of Hampden Bank and its parent company, Hampden Bancorp, Inc., a publically traded company . Mr. Kaylor’s areas of expertise include regulatory compliance, risk management, bank secrecy, internal controls and corporate […]
H. Norman Knickle
H. Norman Knickle is an attorney-adviser in the Boston Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC oversees the key participants in the securities world, including securities exchanges, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisors, and mutual funds with a mission to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital […]
Steven B. Levine
Steven Levine is a senior partner at Brown Rudnick, LLP where he has practiced law since graduating from law school in 1981. He regularly represents official and unofficial creditors’ committees, senior and junior lenders, hedge funds, asset purchasers and other constituencies in restructuring matters and the documentation, structuring and recovery of complex financial transactions. With […]
Francis C. Morrissey
Francis C. Morrissey is a partner in the firm of Morrissey, Wilson, & Zafiropoulos, LLP, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, insolvency and distressed acquisitions and divestitures. Mr. Morrissey is an experienced bankruptcy litigator and counselor who has practiced for more than eighteen years in the field. His practice encompasses […]
Thomas Murley
Professor Thomas S. Murley (Tom) has been a leader in global renewable and conventional energy infrastructure finance for over 30 years, with experience covering investments in over $20 billion of energy projects around the world as a lawyer, fund manager, and investment committee chair. In 2004 Tom founded the renewable energy investment team at HgCapital, […]
Nicole Peppe
Nicole Peppe is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology business unit and Private Investment Funds practice. Her practice is focused on the representation of domestic and international venture capital, growth equity, and private equity funds and funds of funds in connection with their fund formation and ongoing operational matters. Nicole advises clients on all aspects of […]
Kathleen M. Phelps
Kathleen Phelps is an assistant general counsel for Ameresco Inc., where she represents the company in the development and financing of its solar and other projects. Prior to this position, she was of counsel in the energy transactions section of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group, where she represented major institutional […]
Ian C. Pilarczyk
Ian C. Pilarczyk is owner and managing member of Pilarczyk LLC, d/b/a Aussie Pet Mobile Arlington. He also serves as a lecturer in the Banking and Financial Law Program, teaching Introduction to the American Legal System. Dr. Pilarczyk was Director of Executive, Online and Special Initiatives at Boston University School of Law from 2017-2020. Prior […]
Michael Refolo
Professor Refolo teaches a course on UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions), and has also written a book on the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code, now in its second edition. Professor Refolo focuses his legal practice on business law, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, banking, loan documentation review, legal opinions, and in the drafting and review of business […]
Bisera Thaci
Bisera Thaci is an associate at Hackett Feinberg P.C., a Boston-based law firm where she concentrates her practice in asset-based lending, commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate financing, renewable energy finance, affordable housing and community development. Ms. Thaci represents banks and other financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governmental agencies in structuring, […]