A partner in the Corporate Department, T. Robert Zochowski, Jr., has extensive experience in specialized finance structures, such as securitizations and project financings, involving esoteric assets such as films, patent royalties, power plants and hydrocarbon reserves. He has been recognized as one of the leading securitization lawyers in the country by Chambers USA and by Legal 500.

Mr. Zochowski’s experience includes representation of:

• Barclays Capital and Jefferies as initial purchasers in structuring and placing $500 million of asset-backed notes issued by Miramax and supported by revenues from a library of 700+ films;
• Citigroup in its $555 million "Beverly One" slate financing for Relativity Media and Sony Pictures;
• the U.S. Department of Energy as lender in connection with its Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program;
• a major investment bank as investor in $750 million of structured debt supported by television series revenues;
• Citicorp North America as administrator of asset–backed commercial paper conduits with aggregate assets exceeding $60 billion;
• senior debt investors in a $100 million structured term debt facility secured by performing rights agency commissions;
• subordinated debt investors in a $300 million revolving and term debt facility for Alcon Entertainment’s film production;
• the financial guarantor in a securitization of talent agency commissions;
• UBS Securities as underwriter in the $355 million securitized acquisition financing by Aurora Capital of NuCO2 Inc. and Goldman Sachs as placement agent of an additional $40 million offering by NuCO2;
• Goldman Sachs as placement agent of senior and subordinated debt and equity in the Asian Film fund managed by the Weinstein Company;
• Ambac Assurance in numerous film securitizations and financings exceeding $3 billion for Marvel Studios, The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios and Dreamworks;
• Ambac Assurance in a $300 million TV syndication revenue securitization supported by classic television sitcoms;
• Symphony Capital, a private equity fund, in phase I and II pharmaceutical research and development joint ventures;
• Credit Suisse First Boston as arranger in a $500 million financing for Walt Disney Studios;
• Paramount Pictures in its Melrose I, Melrose II and Vantage film slate financings;
• the investor in expected loss notes and other subordinated interests issued by commercial paper conduits administered by a major money center bank;
• Citibank and its affiliates in the liquidation of the “Rawhide” transaction and other matters associated with the Enron bankruptcy;
• Citibank in financings of portfolios of U.S. power plants, natural gas pipelines, gas liquification facilities and other energy assets aggregating $2.5 billion;
• Credit Suisse First Boston, WestLB, CIBC and Citibank in a structured equity financing of a $2.4 billion portfolio of interests in infrastructure projects throughout the world;
• Citibank in the non-recourse financings of a $1.2 billion portfolio of common and preferred stock, a $1 billion portfolio of convertible preferred stock and $1 billion securitizations of U.S. and foreign motion picture receivables for each of Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios; and
• Citibank in the structuring and arranging of a £1 billion of structured equity and debt project financing.

Mr. Zochowski was an articles editor of the New York University Law Review.