Jean Bilodeau is a partner at Gebhardt & Smith where she represents financial services institutions and other commercial lenders in a wide variety of commercial financing transactions, including credit syndications and multi-lender transactions, acquisition and leveraged buyout transactions, cross-border financing, floor plan financing and asset-based lending, franchise finance, equity sponsor transactions, ESOP transactions, subordinated debt and mezzanine financing structures, export finance, government-guaranteed financing transactions, and real estate lending. Jean’s experience also includes restructuring troubled facilities out-of-court.
Jean was actively involved in the passage of Revised Article 9 in the State of Maryland as the Vice-Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association’s UCC Committee. She testified before the Maryland Legislature in 2000 as the Chair of the UCC Committee, in support of the repeal of the Maryland Recordation Tax as applied to centrally-filed security agreements and financing statements covering personal property.
Jean earned her J.D. from The National Law Center of The George Washington University with honors in 1984 where she served as Chair of the Van Vleck Moot Court Board (1984) and staff writer for the Consumer Protection Reporting Service (1982-1984), and worked in the GW Law community legal clinics providing pro bono legal services to underserved individuals in the District of Columbia. Also while in law school, Jean served as a judicial intern to the Honorable J. Bishop, Jr. of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Jean studied Psychology as an undergraduate at Mount St. Mary’s University where she earned a B.A., and appointment to the Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology, and was a co-author of a research study in experimental psychology published in the Journal of General Psychology. She was a member of the Mount’s women’s field hockey and tennis teams and was chosen as captain and MVP of each team during her senior year. As a student athlete, Jean represented Mount St. Mary’s at the 1975 Bruder National Conference on Women in Sports, which focused on implementation of Title IX of the United States Education Amendments of 1972 and expanding opportunities for women in college and university athletics.