Richard A. Cosgrove

Rick Cosgrove is a partner in Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and a member of the Public and Institutional Banking & Finance Group. He also served as the firm’s Chief Executive Partner from 2002-2009. His practice is focused in the areas of commercial lending, credit enhancement, public finance, project finance, structured finance, leasing, derivative products and capital markets activities of banking institutions. He has been practicing law since 1977 when he joined Chapman.

Rick has extensive experience in the representation of domestic and foreign banking institutions and leasing companies in a wide variety of financial transactions, including commercial lending, credit enhancement, project finance, public-private partnership finance, derivative products, leasing, tax-exempt asset securitization and other structured debt financings.

Rick leads the firm’s public infrastructure/public-private partnerships (P3) practice, representing domestic and foreign financial institutions in a wide variety of financial transactions in the financing of infrastructure assets. He is a recognized thought leader with respect to P3 and other innovative financing structures and speaks widely at public finance forums, including the Association for Governmental Leasing & Finance, InfraAmericas US P3 Forum, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and The Bond Buyer public finance conferences.