Experienced Equipment Lease Finance Attorneys Daniel Canine and Jessica VanWert Rejoin Bodman
01/07/25
Bodman PLC is pleased to announce that Daniel J. Canine and Jessica D. VanWert have rejoined the firm’s Banking and Finance Practice Group and will launch an equipment and trade finance practice.
Canine and VanWert are veteran banking and finance attorneys with particular experience negotiating and structuring equipment lease finance transactions. Both join as Members of Bodman based in the Troy office.
Canine concentrates his practice in the structuring, negotiation, documentation, and closing of equipment and trade finance transactions. He represents banks and equipment finance companies on equipment loan and lease originations, lease and loan acquisitions, and sales and remarketing of off lease equipment. He also represents banks and equipment finance companies in connection with establishing financing, vendor and referral programs, and developing standard equipment finance documentation.
Canine is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University’s James Madison College with honors. He began his legal career with Bodman in 2000. Over the last 25 years, he has practiced at Bodman and held in house roles, including at Macquarie Equipment Finance and most recently at Mitsubishi HC Capital America, Inc. where he served as executive vice president and general counsel. He is a legal instructor for the Certified Lease & Finance Professional (CLFP) Foundation.
VanWert concentrates her practice in representing equipment finance companies in negotiating and structuring equipment finance and leasing transactions. She counsels banks and equipment finance companies in all stages of loan and leasing originations, including review, preparation and negotiation of loan documents and leases, collateral documents and other ancillary documents, and corporate authority and organizational documents. She also represents banks and equipment finance companies in connection with lease and loan acquisitions, development of financing, vendor and referral programs, and workout and restructuring of lease and loan transactions.
VanWert is a graduate of Indiana University School of Law and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan with High Distinction. She began her legal career at Bodman in 2007. She left the Firm in 2017 to serve in-house roles, including in-house counsel for one of the nation’s largest all-digital bank and industry-leading auto financing businesses and, most recently, as General Counsel for a leading equipment leasing solutions provider that specializes in acquiring equipment for clients in the construction and industrial, healthcare, IT solutions and services, material handling and automation, and renewable energy and solar sectors.
Bodman has one of the Midwest’s largest and most highly rated banking and finance practices. Bodman has been ranked at the highest possible “Band One” level for banking and finance law by the prestigious Chambers USA for more than 20 years. IFLR1000 also ranks Bodman’s banking and finance practice at the highest “Tier 1” level, and Best Law Firms ranks Bodman at the national level for banking and finance law, at the same level or higher than many significantly larger global law firms.