Practice Areas

Business and Corporate

Financial Services

International Business

George F. Bellows

Partner

gbellows@jaeckle.com

George F. Bellows is a partner in the Firm's Business and Corporate and Financial Services practice groups. He concentrates his practice in general corporate and business matters with a special emphasis on complex financing transactions.

Mr. Bellows routinely represents both borrowers and lenders in all types of financing transactions, including revolving credits, letters of credit, term loans, mortgage loans, interest rate swaps and other derivative transactions, industrial development and civic facility revenue bond transactions, subordination and intercreditor arrangements and syndicated and other multi-lender transactions. He has extensive experience with secured transactions, including special issues involving collateral and opinion letters.

Education:

Hamilton College (A.B., 1974)
Syracuse University (M.B.A., 1980), Beta Gamma Sigma
State University of New York at Buffalo (J.D., cum laude, 1985)
Publications Editor, Buffalo Law Review, 1984-1985

Admissions:

1986 New York; U.S. District Court, Western District of New York

Principal Area(s) of Practice:

Banking Law; Financing Transactions Law; Corporate Law

Memberships & Offices:

Bar Association of Erie County (Chairman, Banking Law Committee, 2002 - 2005)
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association

Honors & Awards:

Listed, Best Lawyers in America (Banking Law)
Listed, "Who's Who in Law," Published by Business First of Buffalo

Community Service:

Board of Trustees, Elmwood Franklin School (2002 - 2008; 2011-Present)
Board of Trustees and Secretary, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation (2011 - Present)