Robert J. Waldner is a senior counsel in the New York office of Crowell & Moring. He is a recognized authority on bank loan and claims trading conventions, issues, and documentation in the global debt trading market. Bob has more than 20 years of legal experience, regularly representing banks, broker-dealers, investment funds, and other financial institutions that transact in the primary and secondary bank loan, high-yield debt, and bankruptcy and litigation claims trading markets. His transactional practice concentrates on trade structure and documentation as it relates to the allocation of credit risk in the fixed income trading markets.Bob regularly advises clients participating in the market for troubled and non-performing loans and financial claims, providing transactional guidance and market insights to clients that originate, restructure, and trade commercial and industrial bank loans, distressed securities, claims arising from bankruptcy, or other litigation proceedings and any related obligations.He has assisted a wide range of financial clients in the creation of trading solutions for liquid and illiquid assets, the documentation and settlement of purchases, and sales of various domestic and international distressed and par assets, and the support of secondary loan and claims trading desks generally.Bob specializes in the preparation and negotiation of primary and secondary market loan and claims trading documentation, including agreements adopted under The Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Inc. (LSTA) and Loan Market Association (LMA) regimes and other bespoke purchase and sale contracts, as well as secondary market private securities trading documentation.He has been engaged by investors seeking to acquire strategic positions in companies undergoing financial restructuring or in bankruptcy, and often counsels these clients in reviewing and analyzing credit documentation and related reorganization or bankruptcy materials.

Robert J. Waldner is counsel at Kibbe & Orbe LLP and a recognized authority on bank loan and claims trading conventions, issues and documentation in the global debt trading market. He has over twenty years of legal experience, regularly representing banks, broker-dealers, investment funds and other financial institutions that transact in the primary and secondary bank loan, high-yield debt and bankruptcy and litigation claims trading markets. His transactional practice concentrates on trade structure and documentation as it relates to the allocation of credit risk in the fixed income trading markets.Mr. Waldner regularly advises clients participating in the market for troubled and non-performing loans and financial claims, providing transactional guidance and market insights to clients that originate, restructure and trade commercial and industrial bank loans, distressed securities, claims arising from bankruptcy or other litigation proceedings and any related obligations. He has assisted a wide range of financial clients in the creation of trading solutions for liquid and illiquid assets, the documentation and settlement of purchases and sales of various domestic and international distressed and par assets and the support of secondary loan and claims trading desks generally. He specializes in the preparation and negotiation of primary and secondary market loan and claims trading documentation, including agreements adopted under The Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Inc. (LSTA) and Loan Market Association (LMA) regimes and other bespoke purchase and sale contracts, as well as secondary market private securities trading documentation.

Transactional and securities experience. Completed rotations in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities groups of the Corporate Department.In the Mergers and Acquisitions group, represented the Seller in an $8.15 billion stock and asset sale. Responsibilities included drafting, negotiating and reviewing diverse contracts including stock and asset transfer agreements and liaising with local counsel regarding transaction mechanics in various foreign jurisdictions. Regularly drafted and negotiated confidentiality agreements and engagement letters.In the Securities group, represented issuers and underwriters in offerings of debt and equity securities, including offerings pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, initial public offerings and offerings of derivative and hybrid securities. Responsibilities included drafting, negotiating and reviewing disclosure documentation and transaction agreements, including underwriting agreements, registration rights agreements and indentures. Researched and analyzed issues arising under the 1933, 1934 and 1940 Acts, as well as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.