Boris Ziser

Partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel

Speaker

Co-head of the Finance Group and member of firm’s Executive Committee. Advises on diverse asset classes such as asset-backed lending and securitization, warehouse facilities, secured financings, specialty finance lending and esoteric finance transactions.

With more than 30 years of experience, Boris works on a variety of asset classes, including life settlements, litigation funding, equipment leases, structured settlements, lottery receivables, timeshare loans, merchant cash advances and cell towers, in addition to other esoteric asset classes such as intellectual property, various insurance-related cash flows and other cash flow producing assets.

He also represents investors, lenders, hedge funds, private equity funds and finance companies in acquisitions and dispositions of portfolios of assets and financings secured by those portfolios.

Boris manages the firm’s London finance practice and its global litigation funding and law firm finance practice.

Recognized as a leading lawyer in the industry, Boris is ranked in Chambers Global, Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US for his work in structured finance.

He serves as outside general counsel to the Institutional Longevity Markets Association (ILMA) and is a member of the Structured Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Esoteric Assets Committee and Risk Retention Task Force of the Structured Finance Association.

Boris has been interviewed for the article “Attorneys Must Tread Carefully in Litigation Funding’s Next Stage,” published in Law360, and the articles “SRZ’s Leading Litigation Finance Practice: Holistic Expertise for a Booming Asset Class” and “Life Settlements and Longevity Swaps: Opportunities for Investors, Individuals, Insurers and Pension Funds,” both published in The Hedge Fund Journal.

A frequent speaker at securitization industry conferences, Boris has conducted various securitization, specialty finance, litigation funding and life settlement seminars in the United States and abroad. His recent speaking engagements include:

• “Macro Trends in Litigation Finance: What Does 2021 Have in Store?” at the IMN Litigation Finance Virtual Series • Schulte's “Litigation Funding: Market Roundtable” webinar

• “Legal and Regulatory Developments in the US and the Road Ahead” at the 4thAnnual LF Dealmakers Forum

• "Co-Investing, Diversification, Securitizations and the Secondary Market" at the 4thAnnual IMN Litigation Finance Conference.