Stephen A. Edwards

Stephen A. Edwards

 

Steve Edwards has practiced in the area of structured finance since 1978. Mr. Edwards has advised clients throughout the world on structuring and documenting financial instruments, with an emphasis on their tax aspects. These transactions have included billions of dollars of public debt offerings with a wide variety of issuers and credit sources. Mr. Edwards' practice is currently focused on servicing matters in the commercial mortgage-backed securities market, where he advises clients on a variety of issues associated with real estate mortgage investment conduits and grantor trust tax matters. Specific types of financings in which he has served as the senior attorney include:

· Securitization and asset-backed securities;

· Derivatives and structured finance;

· Tax-exempt mutual funds and equipment leasing;

· Project finance (including resource recovery facilities, toll roads, water, and wastewater facilities).

He was resident in the Singapore office of a major law firm for several years and, during that period, participated as senior attorney in a wide variety of off-shore financings, including syndicated and bilateral loans to Indonesian, Thai, Indian, and Malaysian borrowers, floating-rate notes listed on the Luxembourg exchange, and convertible bonds issued by regional borrowers; advised on the formation of several off-shore funds for the purchase of obligations of Indonesian issuers; advised participants in the documentation of derivatives transactions; and advised a major Indonesian brokerage house in qualifying to sell securities in various foreign jurisdictions in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Mr. Edwards has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and as its Treasurer. He has also written a number of articles on topics relating to finance and served as a frequent panelist or lecturer, including annual seminars given in Washington for attorneys with the Internal Revenue Service. He was Chairman of the Arbitrage Seminar sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, a member of the Steering Committee for the Bond Attorney's Workshop, and Co-Chairman of the "Arbitrage: General Considerations and Current Developments" panel for the Bond Attorney's Workshop. He has served as a faculty member for the Practicing Law Institute. Other seminars in which he as served as a panelist include:

· "Fundamentals of Swaps & Derivatives," New York Institute of Finance, Singapore

· "Syndicated Loans Asia '98," AIC Conferences, Hong Kong

· "Credit Analysis & Problem Loan Management," New York Institute of Finance, Singapore

· "Credit Risk of Derivatives," AIC Conferences, Singapore

· Author, "Securitization in Asia" AIC Conferences, Hong Kong, 1997

Mr. Edwards is one of the authors of a text on arbitrage published by the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the author of "Tax Exempt Leasing" and a chapter on "Municipal Leasing" in Equipment Leasing -- Leveraged Leasing (Practicing Law Institute, 2008).

Selected Experience

· Represented a major life insurance company in restructuring over $450 million in financings for 32 multi-family housing developments;

· Led a team in developing a defense of a major investment banking firm for a key element of a multi-billion-dollar claim against it for failure to comply with state law requirements for the sale of securities;

· Counseled a major California non-governmental organization in a successful attempt to rescind a large portion of regulations proposed by the United State Treasury, through lobbying of the federal legislative and executive branches;

· Developed a due diligence disclosure compliance program for exempt securities for one of the world's largest securities firms and advised on the implementation of the program.

Background

· Listed in Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America.

· AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

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