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Turning Crisis into Strategy: Contracts, projects and disputes at a global chokepoint
Eric G. Waxman
Counsel Corporate & Finance
New York
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Eric Waxman is a counsel in Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Group, focusing on providing advice to lenders in connection with (a) safe harbor protections under various insolvency regimes for derivatives and other financial contracts; (b) structuring credit facilities for fund finance and other capital market transactions; and (c) securitization and structuring bankruptcy-remote transactions. He regularly advises clients concerning insolvency risks and enforcement of rights, including use and enforcement of letters of credit and surety bonds.
Through a lengthy career, Eric has gained wide-ranging advisory, litigation, and appellate experience representing creditors in business reorganizations, out-of-court workouts, and insolvency proceedings of major enterprises, banks and other financial institutions, and insurance companies.
Eric served as an adjunct professor, teaching a variety of commercial law courses at Touro College’s Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and at Hofstra Law School, including Secured Transactions, Sales, and Creditor/Debtor Law.
Eric received a joint J.D./M.B.A. degree from New York University, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, and graduated from Delbarton School. Eric is admitted to practice in the States of New York and New Jersey.
Credentials
Education
- J.D.
- B.A., University of Virginia
- J.D./M.B.A., New York University
- B.A., University of Virginia
Bar admissions and qualifications
- New Jersey
- New Jersey
- New York
- New York
Court admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Publications
Insights and Analysis
22 May 2024