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| Practice Areas | Banks; Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Commodities; Corporate; Energy; Finance; Infrastructure Development; Restructuring; Insolvency | | | Education | University of Virginia, J.D., Georgetown University, B.S., magna cum laude | | | Admitted | 1982, New York and New Jersey; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey | |
| Memberships | Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Committee on Project Finance; Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law). | | | Born | Ridgewood, New Jersey | | | ISLN | 905522652 | | | Transactions | Representation of the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) in the implementation of its loan guarantee program supporting U.S. air carriers following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (the ATSB representation has included transactions totaling US$1.7 billion in loans to US Airways, Frontier Airlines, America West Airlines, Aloha Airlines and American Trans Air, and has involved equity investments by the ATSB in each of the borrowers, as well as subsequent work-outs and bankruptcies); Representation of the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Petrotrin) in its US$150 million securitization, in the 144A market, of receivables generated through a 12-year forward sale of refined products, with Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown as underwriter and MBIA Insurance Corporation as note insurer; Representation of chemicals manufacturer Arteva Specialties, S.á R.L., a subsidiary of KoSa, B.V., in a revolving US$90 million securitization of its U.S. receivables through Three Rivers Funding Corporation, a Melon Bank commercial paper conduit; Representation of P.M.I. Comercio Internacional, S.A. de C.V., the export arm of Petróleos Mexicanos, in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of long-term crude oil supply and margin guarantee agreements with ExxonMobil, Marathon Oil, Shell Oil, Chevron, El Paso, Valero and Premcor aggregating approximately 700,000 barrels per day of crude oil and supporting coker expansion projects at the purchasers' respective refineries; Representation of the federal Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Board in its guarantee of a US$250 million senior secured term loan to Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation upon its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (the lending syndicate was led by Royal Bank of Canada, and the State of West Virginia and the State of Ohio participated in the loan, proceeds of which were escrowed to fund the construction of an electric arc furnace); Representation of P.M.I. Norteamerica, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Petróleos Mexicanos and joint venture partner with Shell Oil in the Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership, in a two-tranche (revolving and 3-year amortizing) US$390 million securitization of receivables generated from petroleum product sales, with Deutsche Bank AG as arranger. | |
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