Practices
Gregg Bateman is the head of Seward & Kissel’s Global Banking and Corporate Trust Group, and is a member of the Firm’s Energy Finance Restructuring Team, LIBOR Transition Task Force and Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Group.
He has extensive experience representing banks and financial institutions in connection with complex domestic and international debt financing transactions, including secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset securitizations, structured finance transactions, project finance transactions and american and global depositary receipt programs.
Gregg regularly advises clients in connection with secured loan and debt transactions involving both domestic and foreign collateral and highly complex intercreditor structures that include senior/subordinate or pari passu creditor relationships. In particular, Gregg specializes in large syndicated loan facilities and debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.
In addition to origination work, Gregg advises clients in connection with consent solicitations, exchange offers, tender offers, amalgamations and mergers, registration rights offerings, note redemptions and resignations and successions. He also has substantial experience representing trustees, administrative agents, collateral agents and ad hoc bondholder and lender groups in connection with complex corporate, sovereign and state-owned defaults, workouts, restructurings and liquidations.
Additionally, he has substantial experience with securitization transactions involving an array of asset classes, including collateralized loan obligations, residential and commercial mortgages, motion picture royalties, medical and trade receivables, collateralized debt obligations, life insurance policies and premium loans, diversified payment rights, peer to peer loans, student loan receivables and equipment leases.
Gregg also advises clients with respect to the structuring, execution and administration of exchange-traded products (ETPs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Gregg received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was a Dean Merit Scholar.
He is currently a member of the Loan Syndication and Trading Association, where he serves on the Primary Market Committee, and the American Bar Association, where he serves on the Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees Committee.
Publications
- Co-authored, “Seward & Kissel Attorneys Author Chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide – Lending & Secured Finance 2023,” Seward & Kissel (May 24, 2023)
- Co-authored, “2022 Highlights from the Global Bank and Institutional Finance & Restructuring Group,” Seward & Kissel (February 13, 2023)
- Co-authored, “Down to the Wire: Citibank Wins Big in Revlon Appeal,” Seward & Kissel (September 13, 2022)
- Co-authored, “Seward & Kissel Attorneys Author Chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide – Lending & Secured Finance 2022,” Seward & Kissel (April 7, 2022)
- Co-authored, “2021 Highlights from the Global Bank and Institutional Finance & Restructuring Group,” Seward & Kissel (February 14, 2022)
- Co-authored, “SEC Sanctions Broker-Dealer for Alternative Trading System Disclosure Failures,” Seward & Kissel (January 26, 2022)
- Co-authored, “Delaware Bankruptcy Court Limits Recovery of Indenture Trustee’s Attorney’s Fees in Tribune Case,” Seward & Kissel (July 1, 2021)
- Co-authored, “SEC Issues Statement on 1940 Act Registered Funds Investing in the Bitcoin Futures Market,” Seward & Kissel (May 18, 2021)
- Co-authored, “2020 Highlights from the Global Bank and Institutional Finance & Restructuring Group,” Seward & Kissel (May 12, 2021)
- Co-authored, “Client Alert: What Came First: the Token or the SAFT?” Seward & Kissel (February 3, 2021)
- Co-authored, “SEC Permits Specialized Broker-Dealers to Custody Digital Asset Securities,” Seward & Kissel (January 8, 2021)
- Co-authored, “Agencies Encourage Banks to Transition from US Dollar LIBOR as IBA Announces That Publication of Key US Dollar LIBOR Maturities Will Extend to June 2023,” Seward & Kissel (December 1, 2020)
- Co-authored, “IBA Announces That it Will Consult on Plans to Cease Publishing Most Versions of LIBOR, Omitting US Dollar LIBOR,” Seward & Kissel (November 20, 2020)
- Co-authored, “Minority Noteholders’ Right to Sue for Payment Survives Strict Foreclosure,” Seward & Kissel (November 12, 2020)
- Co-authored, “LIBOR Update – New York Legislation,” Seward & Kissel (November 4, 2020)
- Co-authored, “Failure to Communicate?” Seward & Kissel (October 30, 2020)
- Co-authored, “LIBOR: A Legislative Solution?” Seward & Kissel (October 28, 2020)
- Co-authored, “Seward & Kissel Represents Major Banks on Large Issuance Transportation Financings: Spotlight on IP Collateral,” Seward & Kissel (October 14, 2020)
- Co-authored, “Court Holds That Kik ICO, Like Telegram, Was an Unregistered Securities Offering and That Reg. D Private Placement Should be Integrated With Public Offering,” Seward & Kissel (October 9, 2020)
- Co-authored, “Kraken Becomes First Digital Asset Firm to Obtain a Bank Charter,” Seward & Kissel (September 21, 2020)
- Co-authored, “OCC Clarifies That National Banks Can Provide Cryptocurrency Custody Services,” Seward & Kissel (July 24, 2020)
- Co-authored, “Court Ruling: Bitcoin Transaction Records Not Protected By Fourth Amendment,” Seward & Kissel (July 22, 2020)