Greg Cioffi's Email & Phone

Greg B. Cioffi is a member of Seward & Kissel's Corporate Finance Group. Greg has practiced at the Firm since 1986, and has been a partner since 1996. Mr. Cioffi has extensive experience with a broad range of secured and unsecured, asset-backed, market value, cash flow and synthetic transactions. Mr. Cioffi's experience includes representing virtually all types of participants in CLO, CDO and SIV transactions, multi-seller commercial paper conduit transactions and syndicated secured revolving credit and term loan facilities. Mr. Cioffi has a great deal of experience representing a full range of clients in international and domestic workouts and restructurings involving a broad array of asset-based financing transactions. Mr. Cioffi also regularly represents private investment funds and managers in a wide variety of business transactions, financings and general corporate matters. Mr. Cioffi has been actively involved in the development of numerous innovative transactions, including the first issuance of rated notes backed by mutual fund distribution fees, the securitization of motion picture and television broadcast rights and the establishment of structured investment vehicles, mortgage warehouse facilities and derivatives finance facilities for major investment banks and other large financial institutions. Mr. Cioffi is one of the leading practitioners in the distressed debt area and has assisted numerous clients in establishing and implementing policies and procedures for the purchase and sale of various types of bank debt, and assisting such clients in understanding the documentation utilized in the secondary market trading of distressed debt. Mr. Cioffi has been an author on a variety of legal topics, including Assessing CDO and Event of Default Risk?, The Deal, February 4, 2008; Structured Investment Vehicles: Structures and New Developments?, Euromoney, 2007; Double Dipping Issues Relating to CLO and CDO Management Fees?, January 2008, and When Should a Loan Trade as Distressed?, The Distressed Debt Report, July 22, 2008, When In Doubt, Vertical Slice It??, Asset Securitization Report December 15, 2008. Mr. Cioffi is also a regular speaker at various conferences on numerous topics including asset securitization, CDOs, CLOs, SIV distressed debt and restructurings. Mr. Cioffi is a member of the American Bar Association, The Loan Syndication and Trading Association and The Loan Market Association.