Richard S. Petretti is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Finance Practice. Mr. Petretti's practice focuses on banking, finance, and securities regulation law, including representing banks in secured and unsecured lending, loan workouts, debt restructurings, entertainment financings, and corporate trust matters.

Mr. Petretti has a broad corporate practice focused on representation of both major financial institutions and borrowers, particularly in highly leveraged transactions, including structuring, negotiating, documenting, and working out domestic and cross-border loans to fund tender offers, mergers, acquisitions, and recapitalizations, with industry experience in the entertainment, media, telecommunications (including undersea cable and satellite), transportation, auto, healthcare, retailing, real estate, and hospitality sectors, among others. Transactions often involve complex intercreditor issues or taking guaranties and security interests in the UK and other countries.

Film and television transactions are particular areas of concentration in which Mr. Petretti has been active throughout his career. He regularly handles a wide variety of production and P&A financings ranging from single-picture negative pick-ups to multi-picture co-production deals; secured and unsecured credit facilities for independent motion picture companies, mini-majors, special purpose entities, and studio joint ventures; and acquisitions and sales of motion picture producers and libraries.

Mr. Petretti is also frequently consulted regarding UCC issues and serves on the Firm's Opinion Committee.

Mr. Petretti is admitted to practice in California and New York.