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Tanyee Cheung

Tanyee Cheung

Partner
Co-Chair, Debt Finance Group
o: 203.325.5062
tcheung@fdh.com
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Tanyee (Tan) represents borrowers and lenders in leveraged finance transactions, frequently facilitating middle-market to large-cap acquisitions for private equity sponsors. 

Tan represents borrowers, agents, senior lenders, and junior lenders in all levels of commercial financings. Tan’s thirty plus years of in-house and firm experience provides her with a deep understanding of nuanced business considerations.  Always keeping clients' goals top of mind, Tan is a trusted partner to her clients and finds practical solutions to their real-world challenges.

In addition to her day job, Tan is a champion of wellbeing. She is chair of both FDH's Wellbeing Committee and the Wellbeing Committee for the Connecticut Bar Association. She is also the Connecticut representative for the State Task Force for the Institute of Well-Being in Law and a member of the Mindfulness in Law Society. Tan routinely participates and presents on wellbeing and mindfulness topics for the Connecticut Bar Association, law firms, and to local high school students.  She recently presented on the topics "Avoiding Burnout" for Connecticut Legal Services and "Mindset" for the Bankruptcy Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.

Tan is the first woman and first minority to have been elected to serve on Finn Dixon’s Management Committee and the first woman and minority to be appointed as a chair of the firm's Debt Finance practice. Additionally, Tan is an active participant in the firm’s WIN Committee and Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is also Co-President and a board member of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association. 

In 2023, Tan received the Ladder Award at Pathways to Leadership for Women Lawyers. 

Representative Matters
  • Represented borrower in syndicated senior secured loan facility for privately held company in connection with acquisition of executive coaching platform.  
  • Represented borrower in syndicated senior secured loan facility for public mattress company.
  • Represented lender in first lien loan facility to a dermatology practice.
  • Represented lender in second lien loan facility to a design, marketing production agency.
  • Represented investment fund in capital call line of credit.
Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • Connecticut Bar Association 
  • Chair of Connecticut Bar Association Wellbeing Committee (2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Board Member Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2022)
  • Regional Committee Chair Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2021, 2022)
  • Asian American Bar Association of New York
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Practice Areas

Previous Experience

  • Senior Counsel, General Electric Capital Corporation
  • Associate, Paul Hastings LLP
  • Associate, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
  • Law clerk, Hon. Mary Johnson Lowe, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York 

Education

  • New York University School of Law, J.D
  • University of Pennsylvania, MAPP
  • Baruch College, B.A., magna cum laude

Admissions

  • Connecticut
  • New York

Highlights

Tanyee Cheung Authors Attorney Wellness Article for CT Lawyer Magazine

In the July/August 2024 Issue of the Connecticut Bar Association’s CT Lawyer Magazine, partner and regular contributor, Tanyee Cheung published an article on “Desk Yoga, Ergonomics, Sleep Education, and Sound Healing” for the Legal Well-Being Week Highlights column. Read more

Tanyee Cheung Authors Multiple Articles on Attorney Wellness for CT Lawyer

Over the past several years, Tanyee Cheung has been a routine contributing author for CT Lawyer Magazine, published by the Connecticut Bar Association. As chair of the firm's Wellness Committee and co-chair of the Connecticut Bar Association's Wellbeing Committee, Tan shares her... Read more

Attorney Tanyee Cheung Receives 2023 Ladder Award | Connecticut Bar Association

Tanyee Cheung receives 2023 Ladder Award. Read more

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