Erik Lindauer was a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell's Banking and Project Finance groups from 1989 through 2015 and is now senior counsel to the Firm. He focuses on transactional banking, secured lending, commercial law (Uniform Commercial Code), corporate reorganizations and bankruptcy. Mr. Lindauer's financing experience includes advising clients in a broad range of complex secured and unsecured financings including acquisition, project, cable television and media financings. Mr. Lindauer oversees continuing legal education for the firm's corporate practice, regularly leads training programs in his areas of expertise, and previously spent an extended period working in Moscow with American and Russian bankers as the legal advisor to the Government Securities Working Group of the Russian-American Bankers Forum.