Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Lawrence Brandman

Larry has practiced for over 35 years with a focus on bankruptcy, restructuring, antitrust, complex financial products, securities, complex litigation, and dispute resolution. He has served in senior roles in-house and as outside counsel and advisor to diverse organizations.

Jon P. Brose is a partner in Cadwalader’s Tax Group. Jon advises on tax issues relating to CLOs and other structured finance and securitization vehicles. In this capacity, he has represented managers, underwriters, issuers and placement agents. He also provides tax advice regarding securities offerings, structured products, derivatives and other financial instruments, repurchase agreements, credit facilities, and partnerships and other joint ventures, as well as a variety of other commercial transactions and capital markets activities. In addition, Jon represents investment funds (including hedge funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds) and their managers on all aspects of their businesses, including management entity and fund formation, seeding arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, partnership tax issues, international tax issues, compensation arrangements, and ongoing investment activities and transactions. He is experienced with a broad range of investment strategies and asset classes, including long/short equity, credit, distressed asset, commodities, cryptocurrencies and real estate.

Andrew Carlon is a partner in Cadwalader’s Tax Department. His practice focuses on assisting clients with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. He regularly advises on private company acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, taxable and tax-free public company transactions, cross-border restructurings, and spin-offs, including pro rata spin-offs, split-offs, Morris Trust spin-merge transactions and IPO-spin combinations. In addition to his M&A work, Andrew also routinely advises on both public debt and equity offerings and syndicated lending transactions.

Holly Chamberlain

Holly Chamberlain is co-chair of Cadwalader’s Finance Group, head of the firm’s Real Estate Finance practice and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Her practice focuses on real estate finance as well as matters affecting property owners’ ownership, acquisition and disposition of real estate interests. She represents lenders in the financing of a range of properties, including: office, retail, hotel, multi-family, industrial and skilled nursing facilities through single asset as well as multi-state and multi-property transactions. She advises clients on a wide range of transactions, such as: the origination of mortgage and mezzanine loans (including stabilized and unstabilized assets, term loans, bridge loans, revolving credit facilities and future advance facilities), preferred equity investments in real estate joint ventures, unsecured real estate loans, single-family rental portfolios, bridge and term facilities, loan workouts and consensual foreclosure. Holly also advises on the negotiation of co-lender and intercreditor agreements, secondary market mortgage and mezzanine loan sales, loan servicing, the acquisition and disposition of properties, negotiations of property management agreements and the renegotiation, acquisition and sale of stressed real estate loans. Holly was recognized in Forbes’ 2025 America’s Best-In-State Lawyers guide for her work in Real Estate Law in Charlotte. She was named to Lawdragon’s inaugural “Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers” guide, and was among 25 women recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal as part of its “2023 Women in Business Awards.” Holly was also recognized by Law360 as a Real Estate MVP for advising on many of the most significant commercial real estate financings in 2022 and 2024. Holly is regularly recognized as a leading real estate lawyer by Chambers USA, Legal 500 U.S., IFLR 1000, Best Lawyers in America, and is a recipient of Connect Media’s inaugural “Lawyers in Real Estate” award recognizing the top 50 real estate lawyers in the country as well as the 2022 awards. A member of Cadwalader's Women’s Leadership Initiative, Holly also serves as partner mentor for several associates and summer associates, is a primary representative for the firm in its recruiting efforts, both on and off campus, and is a sponsor to “protégées” in the firm’s Sponsorship Program. Holly is also a member of the CREFC Women’s Network.

Brian Foster is co-head of Cadwalader’s Fund Finance Group. Brian focuses on financing, derivatives and structured products transactions involving financial institutions and investment funds. His experience covers a broad range of derivatives (including OTC trades, structured notes, options, forwards and swaps, with particular focus on equity- and fund-linked derivatives) and financing arrangements (including secondaries financing, fund of hedge fund and single manager hedge fund leverage, management company loans, dividend recapitalizations, NAV facilities, subscription lines, hybrid transactions, preferred share issuances, collateralized fund obligations, margin loans, securities lending and repo facilities and prime brokerage arrangements). Prior to joining Cadwalader, Brian worked at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in connection with the unwinding of its derivatives book in bankruptcy. He also worked as a structurer in Global Fund Derivatives at Deutsche Bank, where he arranged fund finance transactions and fund-linked structured product transactions.

Stephen Fraidin

Stephen Fraidin is a partner in Cadwalader's Corporate Group. Stephen is one of the most highly regarded and honored corporate, M&A and corporate governance lawyers in the world. During his career, Steve’s practice has ranged from M&A, hostile M&A representing bidders and targets, private equity, corporate governance, proxy contests representing targets and investors, hedge fund activism and responses, and, recently, all aspects of SPACs.

Jamie Frazier, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice in the area of ERISA and employee benefits. A large part of his practice is devoted to advising clients with respect to the application of ERISA’s fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions to their activities in transactional and regulatory matters. Jamie regularly advises financial services firms with respect to the structuring of investment vehicles and other investment products, including complex structured products and derivatives, offered to employee benefit plans and entities deemed to hold the assets of such plans. He routinely advises financial services firms in connection with the provision of services, such as investment management and brokerage services, to such plans or entities. Jamie also advises clients regarding issues that arise under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code in the context of corporate transactions. He also routinely represents clients before the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration.

Michael Gambro is co-chair of Cadwalader's Capital Markets Group. Michael concentrates his practice primarily on commercial mortgage-backed securities, and generally in the financing, trading and securitization of financial and other cash-flowing assets. He has long been at the forefront of regulatory developments affecting key segments of the industry, and is often involved in discussions with policymakers and regulators concerning issues that impact markets.

Nicholas Gravante

Nick Gravante is the co-chair of Cadwalader’s Global Litigation Group and head of the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice. He is widely recognized as one of the top litigators in the country, with extensive trial experience focused on complex commercial, securities and antitrust litigation, as well as criminal cases and appeals. Nick is renowned for his work on behalf of clients, handling high-profile cases and highly sensitive, confidential matters resolved behind the scenes. He has negotiated non-prosecution agreements for publicly traded companies and won exoneration of numerous individuals, non-profit entities, Fortune 500 companies and a major national university in federal and state grand jury and regulatory investigations.

Mark Howe is a partner in Cadwalader's Tax Group. Mark's practice is concentrated in partnerships, financial products, securitization, the tax aspects of capital markets, general corporate finance, securities, and commodities. His work includes emphasis on the tax structuring of domestic and offshore investment funds and in the development, structuring, and implementation of a wide variety of financial and derivative products and transactions, such as fixed income, currency, equity, and commodity linked swaps, forwards, notes, options, and similar instruments and transactions, securities and other instruments with embedded derivatives, and hybrid and synthetic products.

Phil Iovieno is the Co-Chair of Cadwalader’s Antitrust Litigation Group, with a practice focused on representing plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust and other complex commercial litigation. Phil has extensive experience in federal and state courts throughout the country, including having led or co-led multiple jury trials through verdict. On the plaintiff side of the “v,” Phil has recovered more than $2 billion for various corporate clients who were the victims of price-fixing cartels and other antitrust violations. On the defense side, Phil has obtained dismissals of a wide variety of antitrust and other claims brought against Fortune 500, private corporations, and non-profit institutions.

Philip Khinda is a partner in Cadwalader's Global Litigation - White Collar Defense and Investigations Group. Philip is one of the nation's leading securities litigators and corporate advisers. He counsels public and private institutions, their boards of directors and special committees, hedge funds, private equity firms and other financial institutions on risk management issues, regularly advising clients on preventive measures, and in dealing with governance disputes, corporate crises, shareholder and derivative litigation, and government and internal investigations. He also advises domestic and international enterprises on emerging securities law issues, including multi-jurisdictional matters and digital/cryptocurrencies. He leads the firm's SEC enforcement and crisis management practices, consistently delivering outstanding results for global clients across industries.

Ivan Loncar, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice on derivatives, structured finance and municipal finance (including distressed municipal finance). Ivan represents dealers, banks, and other financial institutions in connection with (i) unfunded derivatives involving a wide range of products (e.g., interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, total return swaps, commodity swaps, etc.) and counterparty types and (ii) funded derivative products (e.g., credit linked notes and other structured notes, repackaging transactions, market access trades, etc.). He also has extensive experience with the structuring of derivatives product companies and the repackaging of swap receivables, capital relief trades (CRTs) and other structured transactions that combine securitization techniques and derivative products. Ivan also represents creditors in connection with tax-exempt and taxable financings by U.S. state and local governments and non-for-profit corporations, including the work out and restructuring of transactions with distressed municipal entities (both in and out of bankruptcy court proceedings). He has extensive experience with credit facilities, liquidity facilities, financial guarantee insurance policies, interest rate swaps, forward delivery agreements and other reinvestment contracts relating to such financings. He also has deep knowledge of secondary market municipal financial products, including municipal tender option bond programs and other securitizations of municipal debt.

Peter Y. Malyshev is a partner in the Financial Services Group. His practice focuses on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters relating to commodities, derivatives, and securities products regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For over 25 years, Peter has assisted clients in the United States and overseas on numerous transactions involving over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives products in almost every asset class and market, such as: banking, financial institutions and insurance; agriculture, energy, mining, and environmental commodities; transportation and infrastructure; interest rates and credit default swaps; foreign exchange, digital assets, tokenization and fintech, precious metals and securities. Peter assists various U.S. and non-U.S. derivatives market participants with formulating their risk management and regulatory compliance efforts under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, and CFTC’s and SEC’s regulations as well as cross-border application of U.S. regulations. These market participants include entities that require assistance with structuring risk management and hedging transactions, registering with the National Futures Association (NFA) or the CFTC in the appropriate category, or seeking an exemption from such registration. These entities include commodity pools, commodity pool operators (CPOs) and commodity trading advisors (CTAs); futures commission merchants (FCMs); introducing brokers (IBs); swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs); designated contract markets (DCOs); foreign boards of trade (FBOTs) and swap execution facilities (SEFs); non-U.S. intermediaries; commercial end users; and various derivatives or commodity traders. He also advises on compliance under self-regulatory organizations’ (SRO) rules, including the NFA, and U.S. and non-U.S. DCOs and trading facilities and exchanges. In addition to regulatory work, Peter assists clients with enforcement matters in front of U.S. federal regulators as well as the SROs. Most recently Peter has assisted clients with matters including a whistleblower, futures position limits, a CPO registration and compliance, a forex EFP / EFS trading documentation, an IB registration and data use matter as well as an investigation of an alleged spoofing trading. Peter is the founder of derivatives, futures and fintech subcommittees of the Washington DC Bar and is a former chair of the Washington DC Bar corporation finance and securities law community. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and a prolific writer, Peter is also an adjunct professor at George Washington Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches classes on commodities and derivatives regulation as well as environmental commodities issues. Peter is on the management committee of the Futures Industry Association and is on the board of editors of the FDLR. Peter is Band 1-ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, and is recognized by Lawdragon “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” and The Best Lawyers in America in recognition of his work in Derivatives and Futures Law. Peter has also been named as a Lexology “Legal Influencer” for his general thought leadership and recently received a “Top Authors” recognition from the JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards.

Jed Miller is a partner Cadwalader's Financial Services Group and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. With over 15 years of experience, Jed focuses his practice on novel and innovative structured financing solutions, with an emphasis on transactions that combine securitizations and derivatives. Jed is frequently called upon by clients to advise on securities law, UCC, bankruptcy, tax and other legal and regulatory issues. He is an expert on U.S. bank regulatory capital rules (Regulation Q)—in particular, as they relate to capital relief strategies that involve synthetic securitizations, credit default swaps and other financial products—as well as Dodd Frank’s risk retention rules for securitization transactions. In addition, financial institutions routinely seek Jed’s counsel on contemporary issues facing the structured finance industry. For example, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he guided major securities dealers through the intricacies of the Federal Reserve’s TALF program. He also advised banking institutions on issues relating to the global LIBOR transition.

William Mills is co-chair of Cadwalader’s Corporate Group and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. He represents clients in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, public and private securities offerings, shareholder activism, proxy contests, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, tender and exchange offers, and joint ventures. He regularly advises public companies and boards of directors on corporate governance, fiduciary duty and disclosure matters, as well as investment banks as financial advisers on M&A and other transactions. Bill also advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including mergers, acquisitions, investments and financings, as well as restructurings.

Andrew O’Brien

Andrew J. O’Brien is a partner in Cadwalader's Corporate group. Andrew focuses his practice on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, with an emphasis on strategic mergers and acquisitions, complex leveraged buyouts and other significant business transactions. He regularly advises public and private companies, management teams and individual senior executives on executive employment and separation arrangements, and on the design and implementation of cash and equity incentive compensation agreements and non-qualified retirement programs.

Greg Patti is a partner in Cadwalader's Corporate group. Greg represents clients in a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate governance matters. Greg represents foreign and domestic entities in complex business transactions and counsels clients on negotiated acquisitions, divestitures and private equity transactions. Greg also regularly advises special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) across the full range of transactions. In addition to his transactional practice, Greg counsels clients on a broad range of business-related matters including securities law, directors’ duties and responsibilities and disclosure matters. Greg has represented public and private acquirors, targets and portfolio companies. He has advised clients on numerous significant matters, particularly in the life sciences and telecom industries.

Lisa Pauquette is a partner in Cadwalader's Capital Markets Group. Lisa's practice involves the representation of banks, investment banks and other financial institutions in commercial mortgage loan securitization and a variety of mortgage banking and financing transactions. Lisa has diverse experience in securitization matters having represented major Wall Street investment banks and financial institutions in their roles as underwriters, placement agents, issuers, and mortgage loan sellers of public and private securitization transactions involving commercial and residential mortgage loans. In addition, Lisa represents clients in the purchase and sale of mortgage loans, mezzanine debt, and subordinate debt. Her client representations have also included the purchase and sale of residential first- and second-mortgage loans (including FHA, VA, conventional and reverse mortgage loans) and commercial and multifamily mortgage loans, as well as structuring and negotiating warehouse lines and repurchase agreements for commercial mortgage loans, mortgage assets and CMBS and RMBS securities.

Daniel Raglan is a partner in the Corporate Group at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. He focuses on advising clients in a transactional practice that covers mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance and shareholder activism. In addition, he has a niche sports and celebrity endorsement practice, having advised Inglot Cosmetics in their collaboration with Jennifer Lopez, the artist Henry Taylor, and the family of Caroline Wozniacki in a number of projects.

Nick Ramphal is a partner in Cadwalader's Corporate Group. Nick’s practice focuses on U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, takeover and defense preparedness and proxy contests, as well as corporate governance, securities, corporate finance and general corporate representation. He regularly advises a broad array of clients, including public and private companies, private equity firms, financial institutions and investment funds, in some of their most significant and complex transactions. Nick’s experience covers a wide spectrum of industries, including financial services, technology, healthcare, asset management, education, insurance, media, resources and energy, manufacturing, and food and beverage.

Jeffrey Rotblat

Jeffrey Rotblat is a partner in Cadwalader's Capital Markets group. Jeffrey practices primarily in the area of commercial real estate securities representing financial institutions and real estate funds in their roles as issuers, loan sellers, underwriters and placement agents in both public and private offerings of mortgage-backed securities, CRE CLOs and other structured finance products. He also represents investment banks, specialty finance companies and investment funds structuring and negotiating mortgage loan trades, mortgage loan participations, subordinate loans and asset-backed securities. He also represents special servicers and specialty finance funds in work-outs and restructurings of non-performing commercial mortgage loans in CMBS and CRE CLO transactions. An active participant in CMBS industry trade organizations, Jeffrey often participates in panel presentations at industry conferences. He has been active on behalf of various CMBS industry trade groups in their communications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding legislation affecting the ABS industry.

Casey Servais is a partner in Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Group. He has represented creditors and debtors in many of the major Chapter 11 and municipal bankruptcy cases of recent years.

Lary Stromfeld is a partner in Cadwalader's Financial Services Group. With over four decades of experience in global capital markets and key roles in some of the most consequential matters in its history, Cadwalader partner Lary Stromfeld has earned a reputation as the go-to lawyer for complex market structures, financial products, legal disputes and regulatory advice. Lary has been at the forefront of many major developments in financial markets over the past 20 years, including representing the Federal Reserve’s ARRC in navigating the cash markets through LIBOR transition, in which role he was the lead author of legislation enacted by the State of New York to address contracts relying on LIBOR and which served as the model for a similar Federal law. He previously helped ISDA steer the derivatives markets through global regulatory reform in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, in which role he helped lead the development of the Dodd-Frank protocol, revamp standard credit support documentation and launch ISDA’s first on-line protocol (ISDA Amend).

As the longtime chair of Cadwalader's Tax Group and the International Tax Review 2024 North American Practice Group Leader of the Year, Linda structures complex global mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, and restructurings, and designs foreign tax planning strategies. She also structures derivative products and other bespoke financing solutions.

William Walsh is an associate in Cadwalader’s Tax Group.

Neil Weidner is a partner in Cadwalader's Capital Markets Group. Neil's practice is concentrated in the areas of securitization, structured finance, and derivative financial products. Neil represents underwriters, dealers, issuers, institutional investors, and sponsors in a wide range of matters involving the financing and securitization of traditional and non-traditional credit assets. Neil has extensive experience using cash flow, market value, and hybrid structures, and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the CLO 3.0 market.