Carter Klein is a leading authority on the Uniform Commercial Code, especially Article 5–Letters of Credit. Corporations, businesses, banks, and other financial institutions seek his counsel on funds transfers, sales and acquisitions, and financial and international transactions work. Carter advises clients on secured and unsecured lending, asset sales and purchases, trade finance, outsourcing, payments, financial services and regulation, and credit enhancements and workouts.

Carter is a member of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, liaison for the American Bar Association’s Uniform Commercial Code Committee to the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, and is editorial advisor, contributor, and frequent speaker and panelist on trade finance issues to the institute of International Banking Law & Practice (IIBLP). He served as chair of the ABA’s Letter of Credit and Payments Subcommittees. For the Chicago Bar Association, he has chaired the Commercial and Financial Transactions Committee, the International & Foreign Law Committee, and the Consumer Credit Committee.

Carter edited three books on the Uniform Commercial Code for 45 years and is a sought-after speaker about letters of credit, having spoken at over 50 IIBLP programs and written numerous articles on letter of credit issues and cases. Consistent with the firm’s values, he also donates a substantial amount of his time to pro bono work.