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Alfrado D. Donelson

Senior Counsel

Alfrado Donelson offers his clients more than 30 years of experience in the equipment leasing and finance industry, including the creation and restructuring of a wide variety of asset-based loans, leases and other financing of vehicles.

Featured Experience


Provided both legal and business advice in structuring and closing equipment financing transactions of first impression involving parties in the United States and Asia.

Represented leasing/financing parties in state-of-the-art equipment financing transactions.

Experienced in financing equipment in the United States and in jurisdictions in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Professional Biography


Based in our Jackson office, Mr. Donelson's national leasing and lending work typically centers around various types of equipment, including manufacturing, transportation and construction equipment.

Mr. Donelson has held general counsel positions at several subsidiaries and businesses of an internationally recognized financial institution, where he had a lead role in supervising, negotiating and structuring all major transactions. Prior to going in house, Mr. Donelson was a partner in the New York office of a Chicago-based law firm.

Mr. Donelson was a member of the 2009 – 2010 class of Leadership Greater Jackson, a program run by the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership to establish relationships among existing and emerging business leaders from varied segments of the community, to assist in solving community problems, to educate participants as to major community issues, and to develop and inspire leadership in solving community issues. In his community, he sits on the board of directors of Canopy Children's Solutions.

  • Provided both legal and business advice in structuring and closing equipment financing transactions of first impression involving parties in the United States and Asia.

  • Represented leasing/financing parties in state-of-the-art equipment financing transactions.

  • Experienced in financing equipment in the United States and in jurisdictions in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
  • Experienced in asset-based financing such as cash-flow lending, receivables and similar types of loans.
  • Prepared fifty-state surveys for multiple equipment leasing and finance companies on a variety of relevant topics, including licensing, usury, motor vehicle titling, and landlord lien issues.

  • Represent a chain of gas stations in South Florida in their lease regarding 60+ charging stations.

  • Member – Mississippi Bar Association
  • Member – New York Bar Association
  • Board Member – Canopy Children's Solutions
  • Leadership Greater Jackson (2009 – 2010)
  • Member – Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Legal Committee (2008 – 2010)
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Mergers and Acquisition Law (2013 – 2025); Commercial Finance Law (2020 – 2023); Equipment Finance Law (2023 – 2025)
  • "Advanced UCC," Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Legal Forum (May 2017, May 2018, May 2019)

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