Orrick Partners Named BTI Client Service All-Stars

December.11.2020

Clients have selected Orrick partners Howard Goldwasser and Carl Lyon as Client Service All-Stars. Their selection to the 2020 list is based on client-driven rankings of attorneys’ client service from more than 350 in-depth, independent interviews by BTI with top legal decision makers at leading companies.

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Howard Goldwasser Partner, Structured Finance, Asset‐Backed Securities

New York

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D:+1 212 506 3537
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Practice:

Finance Sector
Structured Finance
Asset‐Backed Securities
Banking & Finance
Fintech

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Howard Goldwasser Partner

New York

His clients include investment banks, commercial banks, non-bank lenders and investment managers.

Howard is recognized as a market-leading lawyer, in particular in the U.S. CLO space. He has advised on the structuring of U.S. CLOs and CDOs since the emergence of the U.S. CLO and CDO markets in the mid-1990s and was among a small group of pioneering lawyers to advise both arrangers and collateral managers in the first “CLO 2.0” transactions that emerged as markets recovered from the 2008-2009 financial crisis. His work there included innovative approaches to compliance with securitization risk retention, in particular with respect to the creation of so-called “CMVs” (capitalized management vehicles) and “C-MOAs” (capitalized majority-owned affiliates) designed to enable CLO managers to source third-party debt and equity to facilitate compliance with both the U.S.'s and the European Union's securitization risk retention rules. He was also an innovator in the area of CLO warehousing, where he designed traditional and non-traditional warehousing programs for CLO arrangers.

Howard also represents banks and non-bank lenders on syndicated and bilateral financings, senior secured term loan financings, receivables- and other asset-based financings, in particular, and both issuers and underwriters in many credit card securitizations.

Carl Lyon Partner, Energy & Infrastructure, Public Power Financing

New York

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D:+1 212 506 5180
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Practice:

Energy & Infrastructure Sector
Finance Sector
Energy & Infrastructure
Public Power Financing
Banking & Finance
Structured Finance
Power
Mergers & Acquisitions

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Carl Lyon Partner

New York

He has long-standing relationships with a great number of utility clients that span many years and complex transactions, advising them on numerous taxable, tax-exempt, and tax-advantaged financings of all types for electric, gas, water and waste water projects and in restructuring and work-outs. These projects include five different nuclear plants, with financing through both the public capital market and through the U.S. Department of Energy.

Carl was one of the leaders in the development of joint action agencies among municipal utilities. He worked on legislation in 20 states to authorize their formation and testified before legislatures and legislative committees in many of these states. He drafted the first modern indenture for cooperative utilities which served as the model that is currently used by almost every generation and transmission cooperative. He worked with TVA in their exit from the Federal Financing Bank program in the 1980’s and in their financings since then. Carl worked with the major generation and transmission cooperatives that have exited the RUS program in structuring and financing their exit.

Carl has also worked with virtually every major investment banking firm and most major domestic and international banks.