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Boris Ziser

Boris Ziser is co-head of the Structured Finance & Derivatives Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. With over 25 years of experience across diverse asset classes, Boris focuses on asset-backed securitizations, warehouse facilities, secured financings, commercial paper conduits and specialty finance. His practice encompasses a variety of asset classes, including life settlements, equipment leases, structured settlements, lottery receivables, timeshare loans, litigation funding, merchant cash advances and cell towers, in addition to other esoteric asset classes such as intellectual property, various insurance-related cash flows and other cash flow producing assets. He also represents investors, lenders, hedge funds, private equity funds and finance companies in acquisitions and dispositions of portfolios of assets and financings secured by those portfolios. Recognized as a leading lawyer in the industry, Boris is ranked in Chambers USA, Chambers Global and The Legal 500 US for his work in structured finance. He serves as outside general counsel to the Institutional Longevity Markets Association (ILMA) and is a member of the Structured Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Esoteric Assets Committee and Risk Retention Task Force of the Structured Finance Industry Group. A frequent speaker at securitization industry conferences, Boris has conducted various securitization, litigation funding and life settlement seminars in the United States and abroad. Most recently, Boris was interviewed for the article “Attorneys Must Tread Carefully in Litigation Funding’s Next Stage,” published in Law360 and the articles “SRZ’s Leading Litigation Finance Practice: Holistic Expertise for a Booming Asset Class” and “Life Settlements and Longevity Swaps: Opportunities for Investors, Individuals, Insurers and Pension Funds,” both published in The Hedge Fund Journal. His speaking engagements have included “Flash Briefings on Alternative & Emerging Asset Classes — Structured Settlements” at SFIG and IMN Vegas 2018 and “Insurance Dedicated Funds and Related Strategies” and “Credit and Specialty Finance,” both at SRZ’s 28th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Boyd Johnson

Partner Partner-in-Charge, New York Office Co-Chair, White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice

WilmerHale

Brad Bondi

Brad Bondi is Global Co-Chair of the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and a nationally recognized litigation partner. He focuses on securities and financial investigations (SEC and DOJ) and securities and complex litigation. He also advises boards of directors and audit committees concerning significant governance matters. He is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices. The publication Law360 recognized Brad as a national MVP in white collar in 2022, 2021, and 2019, Benchmark Litigation lists him as “national practice area star” in both securities and white collar, and The National Law Journal named him a Washington D.C. Trailblazer in 2020 to recognize his significant contributions to the field of securities law. The National Association of Corporate Directors has twice honored him for his work in the board room. Securities Docket describes Brad as “the first choice among Boards of Directors and Audit Committees of the Fortune 500 when their company is faced with SEC or DOJ problems.” Mr. Bondi has two decades of experience representing and counseling companies, financial institutions, boards of directors, audit committees, and senior executives in a broad range of investigations and complex business litigation, with an emphasis on securities and financial regulations and corporate governance matters. He previously held senior positions in government, including at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Bondi leads the representation of significant legal matters including major litigation in trial and appellate courts and in arbitrations (securities litigation, derivative litigation, and complex business litigation), SEC, FINRA, and PCAOB enforcement matters, criminal inquiries (including FCPA, DOJ, and USAO matters), and various investigations (including independent investigations overseen by audit committees and special committees). Mr. Bondi regularly serves as a senior advisor to boards of directors, audit committees, special committees, independent directors, and senior executives during corporate crises, significant transactions, and governance challenges. He has guided boards and board committees through the most extraordinary corporate events, including independent investigations, defense of derivative lawsuits against directors and officers, class actions, accounting irregularities and Restatements, auditor disputes, hostile takeover attempts and activist shareholders, mergers and acquisitions disputes, cyber intrusions and data breaches, and investigations of alleged misconduct by executives. Mr. Bondi advises clients in connection with regulatory enforcement actions, private lawsuits, and governmental and congressional investigations arising from suspected violations of securities laws, accounting irregularities, auditor disputes, internal controls, market manipulation, revenue recognition issues, tax-related matters, insider trading, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other commercial bribery law compliance, matters involving LIBOR and other reference rates, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts, potential antitrust concerns, and cybersecurity. He also oversees complex civil and criminal litigation, such as securities litigation, corporate control litigation, commercial litigation, contractual disputes, arbitrations, and criminal proceedings. Mr. Bondi has litigated significant legal disputes in various state and federal courts, including serving as counsel of record for successful briefs before the Supreme Court of the United States: for an investment bank in Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing (interpreting securities laws as implicitly precluding the application of antitrust laws in the IPO process) and for an amicus curiae in Yates v. United States (construing Sarbanes-Oxley’s criminal provision for document destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 1519). He also served as counsel of record for an amicus curiae brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in Salman v. United States (concerning the personal benefit element of insider trading law) and Liu v. SEC (concerning the SEC’s authority to seek disgorgement), and he has advised on other cases before the Court. Mr. Bondi regularly advises financial institutions, including banking institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, mutual funds, and hedge funds, and their respective boards on issues relating to compliance with securities laws, criminal laws, SEC and FINRA rules, and governance requirements. Mr. Bondi defends clients in enforcement actions, prosecutions, and investigations initiated by federal and state agencies and departments, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorneys and grand juries, State Attorneys General, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On occasion, he has served as an expert witness regarding issues relating to securities law and insider trading law.

Paul Hastings LLP

Brad Copeland

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Brad Curtis

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Brad Dennis

Brad Dennis advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including nonprofit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, and private equity firms and their platform companies. Brad routinely provides transactional representation to such clients in connection with strategic affiliations, mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactional matters. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/dennis-brad/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Brad Drake

Brad Drake is a partner in the Insurance Private Equity and M&A practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. He frequently represents insurers, reinsurers, investment managers and other market participants in a broad range of insurance-related transactions, from company formations to innovative risk transfer solutions. Brad has advised insurers in connection with company and block acquisitions, and issuers and underwriters in connection with equity, debt, and hybrid securities offerings. He has also been involved in several alternative risk transfer transactions, including embedded value and closed block securitizations, regulatory reserve financings, pension risk transfers, and sidecars. Brad also advises participants in connection with premium finance and life settlement transactions.

Paul Hastings LLP

Brad E. Kotler

Brad Kotler serves as Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins and a member of its Executive Committee. Prior to his election as Vice Chair, Brad was a finance partner in the Chicago office, where his practice focused on advising clients on complex credit financings. He regularly counseled both creditors — including major investment banks — and borrowers. Brad’s practice consisted of structuring, negotiating, and documenting financings for acquisitions and working capital purposes, including: Secured and unsecured term and revolving credit facilities Tender-offer and second-step merger financings Debtor-in-possession facilities Large-cap and middle-market cash flow and asset-based loans (ABLs) Islamic financings Brad has held multiple leadership positions with the firm. He previously served as the Managing Partner of the Chicago office, as Global Vice Chair of Latham’s Finance Department, as Local Department Chair for the Finance Department in Chicago, and as the Chicago office representative on the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, Recruiting Committee, and Women Enriching Business Committee. Brad previously served as the Co-Chair of the Board of Keshet, a not-for-profit organization providing educational, recreational, and residential services to special needs adults and children in Chicago.

Latham & Watkins

Brad Eric Scheler

Mr. Scheler is a senior partner of the Restructuring and Insolvency Department. In his work, Mr. Scheler leads teams attending to investment in, recourse related to and the financial restructuring and rehabilitation of, complex and often distressed businesses either out-of-court or in connection with formal restructuring and insolvency proceedings in the United States and abroad. Mr. Scheler represents parties seeking to invest in and/or acquire the assets and businesses of financially troubled and other companies, buyers and sellers of distressed securities and businesses, financial institutions that are lenders to and investors in financially troubled companies, and corporate debtors, creditors' committees, bondholders' committees, equity holders' committees and trustees. Drawing upon his substantial experience in corporate boardrooms and judicial proceedings, Mr. Scheler acts as outside general counsel and strategic adviser to financially strong corporate and institutional clients in connection with financings and capital market transactions, including the issuance and exchange of debt and equity securities and the structuring and implementation of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Mr. Scheler also represents and provides corporate finance and strategic planning advice to corporate, institutional and governmental clients. Mr. Scheler's experience on some of the largest and most complex transactions — including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and capital markets transactions — has given Mr. Scheler perspective and insight into realizing maximum value from and flexibility for businesses and assets. Mr. Scheler also serves as a trustee of certain complex trusts and as an advisor to such trusts.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Brad J. Finkelstein

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brad Kaufman

Co-President

Greenberg Traurig

Brad Levy

Partner; US Co-Chair, Hospitality and Leisure; Co-Location Head, Chicago Real Estate Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Brad M. Brown

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brad M. Kahn

Brad is a financial restructuring practitioner, focused on large, complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. Brad’s experience includes representing ad hoc and official creditors’ committees, as well as debtors, in high-profile chapter 11 cases. He also advises clients in multijurisdictional and cross-border insolvency proceedings. Brad’s restructuring matters encompass a variety of industries, including financial services, energy, telecommunications, shipping, and technology. Recent representations include SVB Financial Group, Steward Health Care, DISH Network, American Medical Technologies, Talen Energy, Nordic Aviation Capital, FirstEnergy, Intelsat, among others. To learn more about Brad, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/brad-m-kahn

Akin

Brad Mandel

Winston Taylor

Brad Molotsky

Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Brad Peterson

Partner

Mayer Brown

Brad R. Okun

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brad Robertson

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Brad Rose

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Brad S. Karp

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brad Schwartzberg

Partner/Co-Chair

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Brad Shiffman

Brad Shiffman is an accomplished attorney who concentrates his practice in the areas of securities and corporate law. Mr. Shiffman’s clients find that his accounting background has helped him identify, analyze, and better assist them in structuring transactions with complex accounting issues and with handling these issues as they arise. He has particular experience in the representation of issuers, underwriters and placement agents in connection with public and private securities offerings, including: IPOs and follow-on public offerings PIPEs and registered direct offerings SPACs and other structured blank-check offerings Baby bond offerings Perpetual and term preferred stock offerings At-the-market offerings Rights offerings Mr. Shiffman also advises clients in structuring, negotiating, and completing venture capital investments, SEC reporting and corporate law and governance matters. Mr. Shiffman has extensive experience advising investment banks in all steps of a capital markets transaction, from drafting, reviewing and negotiating engagement and retention letters, placement agent agreements, underwriting agreements, agreements among underwriters, selected dealer agreements and other syndicate documents, to advising on SEC and FINRA disclosure and regulatory issues and exchange listing issues. For more information about Mr. Shiffman, please click here to view his full biography

Blank Rome LLP

Brad Thompson

Brad Thompson’s Chambers'-ranked practice focuses on complex commercial issues across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on the energy and healthcare industries. He also serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Within the energy industry, Mr. Thompson has extensive experience from refineries to renewable energy facilities, with particular experience in megaproject EPC construction disputes. In the renewable energy industry, he represents clients in a range of energy-related issues involving disputes, transactions and regulatory compliance matters. In the healthcare industry, Mr. Thompson has experience representing healthcare and pharmaceutical providers in various levels of disputes and compliance-related matters.

Duane Morris LLP