Ms. Katie VanderVeen is a member in Dickinson Wright’s Banking and Finance Group. Based in Denver, Katie’s practice focuses on transactions involving debt financing, whether syndicated or single-lender, secured or unsecured, cash-flow or asset-based. Katie regularly handles transaction-specific loans such as real estate financing, construction financing, acquisition financing, and recapitalizations. Katie assists clients with all aspects of commercial finance transactions, including initial structuring and documentation, modifications and amendments, and restructurings and refinancings. Katie counsels lenders and borrowers alike, as well as agents, participants, sponsors, and other owners. Katie specializes in loans to regulated industries, including cannabis (single state and MSOs, vertical and horizontal operations, and more) and healthcare (medical and dental), and handles cross-border transactions. In connection with the pandemic, Katie advises clients on PPP loan matters.
Katie also assists corporate clients with a variety of business matters and, in particular, commercial contracts.
Education & Credentials
Education
Wayne State University Law School
J.D., 2014- cum laude
- Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity
- Student Board of Governors
Michigan State University
B.A., Social Relations and Policy, 2010- Academic Scholars Program
Bar Admission
Acknowledgements
- Michigan Super Lawyers®
- "Rising Star," Banking Law, 2023-2024
- The Legal 500 United States
- Cannabis, 2023
- Michigan Lawyers Weekly
- Best Lawyers in America®
- "Ones to Watch," Banking and Finance Law, 2025
- Super Lawyers
- ACG Denver
Representative Clients
- JPMorgan Chase Bank
- The Huntington National Bank
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
- PNC Bank
- Citizens Bank, N.A.
- Gage
- Independent Bank
- Bank of Ann Arbor
- Straine Dental Management
- Common Citizen
Prominent Assignments
- Counsel to DSO borrower group in $100 million syndicated term loan to fund the acquisition of over 39 dental practices in 11 states and $7.5 million syndicated revolving loan to fund ongoing management operations.
- Counsel to borrower group in $100 million secured senior financing to fund acquisitions in the cannabis sector.
- Counsel to agent in $350 million first-lien asset-based revolving credit facility, complimented by a first-lien equipment finance facility, second-lien term loan, and various vendor-floor plan arrangements.
- Counsel to agent in $185 million senior credit facility including a revolving loan and a term loan, in transaction that included receivables financing and sponsor financing to support expansion and acquisitions of company operations in the US and Canada.
- Counsel to borrower group in $55 million senior secured term loan to fund ongoing cannabis-related operations.
- Counsel to borrower group in $74 million syndicated term loan to fund sponsor’s acquisition and consolidation of various dental groups.
- Counsel to agent in $250 million multi-currency credit facility involving 4 banks and 33 loan parties with operations and assets across 9 countries and 6 states.
- Counsel to agent in $40 million cross-border asset-based loan facility involving entities across 3 continents, secured by, among other assets, collateral in the US, UK, Canada, and Mexico, and real estate across 4 different states.
- Counsel to lender in $20 million multicurrency facility using US and Canadian borrowing bases.
- Counsel to cannabis lending REIT in middle-market loan transactions to US and Canadian operators.
Professional Involvement
- State Bar of Michigan
- Colorado Lawyers Committee
- Association for Corporate Growth
Publications/Presentations
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Moderator, “Debt is Coming Due: How to Manage, Refinance, and Keep Lenders on Your Side,” Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference, June 2025
- Co-Author, "Regulated Cannabis Collateral Creates Challenges in Compressed Industry,” Green Market Report, May 2023
- Co-author, “Update – SBA Adds Guidance Regarding Necessity Certification Under the Paycheck Protection Program”, Dickinson Wright News Alert, April 2020
- Co-author, “Summary: SBA Financial Assistance Under the CARES Act”, Dickinson Wright Client Alert, April 2020
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Presenter, Continuity for US Businesses – During and After COVID-19, Webinar co-sponsored by the India Practice Group at Dickinson Wright (US), King Stubb & Kasiva (India) and in association with Lex Witness
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Co-author, Updated: Summary: SBA Financial Assistance Under the CARES Act, Dickinson Wright, Client Alert, April 2020
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Co-author, SBA Guidance on PPP Borrowers: Transfers of Equity and Assets, Dickinson Wright, Client Alert, October 2020