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 securitisation 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
  • "Defence 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

______________________________________________

Membership

  •  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

Illinos, 1974

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit,1974