Gregg S Bateman

Gregg Bateman is a member of Seward & Kissel’s Management Committee and the Head of Seward & Kissel’s Global Banking and Corporate Trust Practice.  Gregg is also a member of the Firm’s Private Credit Practice and the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Practice.

Gregg has extensive experience representing banks and financial institutions in connection with complex domestic and international debt financing transactions, including secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset securitizations, structured finance transactions, project finance transactions and american and global depositary receipt programs.

Gregg regularly advises clients in connection with lending and securities transactions involving both domestic and foreign collateral and highly complex intercreditor structures. In particular, he specializes in broadly syndicated loan facilities and private credit transactions.

Gregg also has substantial experience with securitization transactions involving an array of asset classes, including collateralized loan obligations, residential and commercial mortgages, motion picture royalties, medical and trade receivables, collateralized debt obligations, life insurance policies and premium loans, diversified payment rights, peer to peer loans, student loan receivables and equipment leases.

In addition to origination work, Gregg regularly represents trustees, administrative agents, collateral agents and ad hoc bondholder and lender groups in connection with complex corporate, sovereign and state-owned defaults, workouts, restructurings and liquidations. Gregg has been involved in some of the most high-profile liability management and special situations transactions in the marketplace and regularly advises clients with respect to debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.

Gregg received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was a Dean Merit Scholar.

He is currently a member of the Loan Syndication and Trading Association, where he serves on the Primary Market Committee, and the American Bar Association, where he serves on the Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees Committee.