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Profile of Jason Kravitt
Jason Kravitt, partner in US law firm Mayer Brown & Platt, is a well-known scholar of securitization law and practice.
Editor and contributor of one of the most authentic commentaries on
the subject, Jason Kravitt has been regularly writing on securitization
in journals as well as publications of this firm. Jason Kravitt, partner
in US law firm Mayer and Brown, is a well-known scholar of securitization
law and practice.
Editor and contributor of one of the most authentic commentaries on the subject, Jason Kravitt has been regularly writing on securitization in journals as well as publications of this firm.
A detailed biography of Mr Kravitt is as follows:
Jason H.P. Kravitt
Partner
in US law firm Mayer and Brown
Phone 312-701-7015
E mail: jkravitt@mayerbrown.com
Experience
Finance: represent commercial or investment banks, issuers,
and other financial institutions or entities in negotiating, documenting,
and underwriting: • sales of receivables, asset-backed or mortgage-backed
securities, and other structured financings, or securitization transactions,
contested and uncontested tender offer financings and other acquisitions
such as leveraged buy-out financings • secured lending agreements and
other financing transactions with customers engaged in equipment leasing,
airline, data processing, transportation, telecommunications, insurance,
steel, heavy industry, and retailing industries • private and public
consensual debt restructurings, including "mega" work-outs. Corporate:
represent banks and bank holding companies in: • opinions on securitization
and other regulatory issues • issuance of equity and debt securities
• organizing and acquiring nonbank subsidiaries • mergers and other
acquisitions of bank and nonbank entities • financial institution antitrust
advice • conversion of banks to state or national charters • contesting
acquisitions of competitors • trust department questions • relations
with governmental regulators, including negotiation of new regulations
and enforcement such as cease and desist proceedings.
Employment
Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, 1973 to date; Partner, 1979; Co-Chairman,
Mayer, Brown & Platt management committee, 1998 to date.
Education
Cambridge University, Diploma, Comparative Law, 1973 • Harvard University,
J.D. cum laude, 1972 • Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1969; Phi Beta
Kappa.
Publications
Author: • "Legal Issues in Securitization," Journal
of Applied Corporate Finance, No. 3, p. 61, 1988 • "Defense Against
Takeovers of Community Banks," The National Law Journal, Vol.
9, p. 24, September 21, 1987 • "Community Banks Can Deter and Defend
Takeover Attempts," The American Banker, March 25, 1987 • "Combined
Investment Advice and Securities Brokerage Activities: Full Service
Brokerage Not a _Public Sale_ by Another Name," The Ninth Annual
Banking Expansion Institute, 1988 • "Full Service Brokerage Activities
and the Glass-Steagall Act," The Review of Financial Services Regulation,
Vol. 4, No. 7, April 6, 1988. Co-Author: • "Securitization
of Project Finance Loans and Other Private Sector Infrastructure Loans,"
The Financier, February 1994 • "How Feasible Is the Securitization
of Loans to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses," Commercial Lending
Review, Fall 1993. Editor: • Securitization of
Financial Assets, Aspen Law & Business, 1996 (2nd Ed.) • Mayer,
Brown & Platt Financial Law Newsletter, 1986-1987.
Memberships
American Bar Association, Committee on Business Financing; Subcommittee
on Securitization • Chicago Bar Association Committees on Financial
Institutions and Commercial Transactions • Chicago Council of Lawyers.
Professional
Activities
Adjunct Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law • Fellow,
American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Civic
The Johns Hopkins University Alumni Advisory Council, 1991-1997 • The
Johns Hopkins University Illinois Alumni Executive Committee, Chairman,
1990-1994 • The Cameron Kravitt Foundation, Director and Chairman, 1985
to date • Museum of Contemporary Art, Men's Council, 1975-1977.
Admitted
Illinois, 1974 • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1974.