As counsel in the Corporate Department, Christopher Poggi is a member of firm’s Finance Group, where he represents financial institutions, major corporations and sponsors in connection with the design and negotiation of specialized finance structures, securitization and asset-backed finance, and secured and unsecured leveraged financings. He regularly advises clients in connection with complex, high-profile securitizations involving esoteric assets such as film revenues, music and other intellectual property royalties, home security alarm monitoring contract revenues and insurance products, as well as more traditional asset classes such as trade receivables. He is also regularly involved in restructuring negotiations relating to distressed financing transactions and has advised clients in connection with the successful workout of various forms of distressed debt.

Mr. Poggi’s experience includes:

• Barclays Capital and Jefferies in connection with the issuance of $500 million of securitized notes backed by revenues from the Miramax film library, in the first film securitization closed since the financial crisis;
• Ambac Assurance Corporation in major structured financings of film assets of more than $3 billion in the aggregate for The Weinstein Company, Marvel Studios, Universal Studios, Inc. and DreamWorks;
• HSBC, as lender to the Estate of Michael Jackson in an $80 million music royalty receivables financing backed by Michael Jackson’s music assets, and Barclays Capital in a private placement of $300 million in asset-backed notes issued by a bankruptcy-remote vehicle owning Michael Jackson’s direct and indirect interests in other music copyrights, including the Beatles catalog;
• various other forms of asset securitizations generally, including agricultural receivables securitization facilities for a major manufacturer of farm products, an accounts receivable factoring product for a major financial institution and structured facilities backed by rights in aircraft, cellular towers, oil and gas assets and insurance products;
• numerous leveraged acquisition financings and bridge loans, syndicated senior and second lien credit facilities, mezzanine financings, asset-based loans, corporate revolving credit facilities, including investment-grade facilities and debtor-in-possession financings; and
• Citigroup and other major financial institutions in connection with the restructuring and bankruptcy of various distressed structured financing transactions, including oil and gas assets, motion picture and student loan receivable securitizations.