Partner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivan Loncar, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice on derivatives, structured finance and municipal finance (including distressed municipal finance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivan represents dealers, banks, and other financial institutions in connection with (i) unfunded derivatives involving a wide range of products (e.g., interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, total return swaps, commodity swaps, etc.) and counterparty types and (ii) funded derivative products (e.g., credit linked notes and other structured notes, repackaging transactions, market access trades, etc.). He also has extensive experience with the structuring of derivatives product companies and the repackaging of swap receivables, capital relief trades (CRTs) and other structured transactions that combine securitization techniques and derivative products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivan also represents creditors in connection with tax-exempt and taxable financings by U.S. state and local governments and non-for-profit corporations, including the work out and restructuring of transactions with distressed municipal entities (both in and out of bankruptcy court proceedings). He has extensive experience with credit facilities, liquidity facilities, financial guarantee insurance policies, interest rate swaps, forward delivery agreements and other reinvestment contracts relating to such financings. He also has deep knowledge of secondary market municipal financial products, including municipal tender option bond programs and other securitizations of municipal debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivan is regularly ranked as a leading lawyer in derivatives and structured finance in legal directories, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, <\/em>IFLR 1000 <\/em>and The Best Lawyers in America. <\/em>Ivan has also been recognized by Legal 500<\/em> US<\/em> as a leading lawyer in municipal bankruptcy and derivatives and structured products. Notably, Ivan has been described by clients in Chambers USA<\/em> as \u201ctremendous\u201d and “incredibly thoughtful and knowledgeable,” and in Legal 500<\/em> US <\/em>as \u201csimply outstanding\u201d in the municipal derivatives field and as an \u201cexpert in fixed income and credit derivatives and structured financial products.\u201d Ivan was part of the team that was named 2020 Regulatory Team of the Year by IFLR<\/em> Americas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivan is active in the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) and currently serves as the co-chair of the SFIG\u2019s Derivatives in Securitization Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivan received his LL.B. from University of Belgrade School of Law and his LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Partner Ivan Loncar, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice on derivatives, structured finance and municipal finance (including distressed municipal finance). Ivan represents dealers, banks, and other financial institutions in connection with (i) unfunded derivatives involving a wide range of products (e.g., interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, total return swaps, commodity swaps, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risk-transfer-and-synthetics-2024.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/1154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risk-transfer-and-synthetics-2024.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risk-transfer-and-synthetics-2024.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risk-transfer-and-synthetics-2024.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risk-transfer-and-synthetics-2024.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risk-transfer-and-synthetics-2024.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}