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Gregg Bateman is the head of Seward & Kissel’s Global Banking and Corporate Trust Group, and is a member of the Firm’s Energy Finance Restructuring Team, LIBOR Transition Task Force and Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Group.

He 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 secured loan and debt transactions involving both domestic and foreign collateral and highly complex intercreditor structures that include senior/subordinate or pari passu creditor relationships. In particular, Gregg specializes in large syndicated loan facilities and debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.

In addition to origination work, Gregg advises clients in connection with consent solicitations, exchange offers, tender offers, amalgamations and mergers, registration rights offerings, note redemptions and resignations and successions. He also has substantial experience representing 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.

Additionally, he 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.

Gregg also advises clients with respect to the structuring, execution and administration of exchange-traded products (ETPs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

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.

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