Profession
Member of the New York Bar
Experience
Stan has extensive experience in securitizing financial and hard assets in both domestic and cross-border transactions. His work has historically focused on structured energy, commodity and carbon-related transactions, including project finance, structured acquisition finance and accounting, tax and bankruptcy-driven transactions, as well as cash-flow and market-value collateralized debt obligations, credit-linked notes and structured derivatives trades.
His recent areas of focus include:
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innovative uses of structured finance techniques in energy, commodity and carbon-trading businesses complex investment fund structures
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structured investments by private investors
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cross-border structured investments
His practice also includes insurance products, with a particular focus on alternative risk transfer solutions, including longevity trades, catastrophe bonds and Triple-X transactions. Additionally, he has an extensive background in the area of structured commodity products, including bullion and base metals, oil and gas, power and carbon credits (trading in the European and international markets as well as in the United States). He also has broad corporate securities experience. He is recognized in Chambers USA and Legal 500.
Professional experience
2006 - Partner, Linklaters, New York
2005 - 2006 Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York
1997 - 2005 Associate, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York
Education
1997 - Columbia Law School, J.D.
1994 - The Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Science, B.S.
Publications
Co-author, “Damming Waterfalls”, American Securitization, Winter/Spring 2012, Vol. 6 Issue 1
Co-author, “A question of scope”, International Financial Law Review, November 2011
Co-author, “The ‘Unique’ Challenges Faced by Project Sponsors in Monetizing Offsets”, Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation (ch. 8), Oxford Publishing, August 2010
Co-author, “Prime Broker Insolvency Risk – After the Fall: What Next?” The Hedge Fund Journal, November 2008, cited by the Second Circuit in the recent Refco decision, January 2012
Co-author, “Negotiating Carbon Trading Contracts in the United States”, Futures & Derivatives Law Report, September 2008, Vol. 28, Issue 8
