Steven Kolyer

Partner at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Speaker

Steven T. Kolyer has broad experience in securitizations, structured credit products, fund formations and finance, and conventional securities offerings, focusing on CLOs/CDOs/CFOs and related financings in the real estate, corporate and private credit sectors. Steven is experienced in conventional capital markets and commercial lending and credit transactions and in credit-linked and other derivative products.

Steven’s experience over the years has been highlighted by transactions involving innovation and structured solutions in the capital markets. He played a lead role in the development of a number of securitization products dating back to the origins of the market, both in the U.S. and off-shore, including first-time structures with commercial real estate (CRE) and residential mortgages, commercial and consumer receivables and other types of financial assets, and in various types of CRE and non-real estate CLOs/CDOs/CFOs and other actively managed fund and specialty finance products. For many years, Steven has concentrated on CRE CLOs and CMBS, corporate CLOs 2.0/3.0 backed by broadly syndicated, middle-market, private credit and other debt, and private debt funds and fund finance. Steven's clients have included issuers, bank and non-bank debt originators, funds, fund sponsors and investment managers, placement agents and underwriters, and derivative providers and program sponsors.