Ethan Schlussel is a Partner in ZEK’s transactional banking, corporate and real estate group. Ethan’s practice focuses on a variety of banking and finance matters – with an emphasis on advising money center banks, private banks and lenders as well as regional and foreign-based banks and lenders across a range of transaction types. Ethan’s experience encompasses all aspects of real estate financing, construction lending, derivative transactions, asset-based lending, capital call facilities, premium finance, loans secured by marketable securities and real estate acquisition. Ethan earned his BS in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2015. At Brooklyn Law School, Ethan was Associate Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law and had his note on the Truth in Lending Act published in the Journal’s Fall 2014 issue. Outside the office, Ethan enjoys spending time with his wife, watching the Jets, Mets and Michigan Wolverines, and getting together with his friends.