Eric Adams

Qualifications and Career Profile

Eric Adams is Co-Chair of the firm's Structured Finance and Securitization Practice. Mr. Adams focuses his practice in the areas of structured finance, securitization and derivatives. He represents issuers, underwriters, swap counterparties and other market participants in a variety of public and private structured finance transactions as well as in workouts, restructurings, liquidations and loss mitigation projects. He also assists on related litigation matters. Mr. Adams represents clients issuing various structured products, asset-backed securities transactions, collateralized debt obligation issuances, credit card, auto loan and other receivable securitizations, commercial and residential mortgage loan securitizations, and securitizations and repackagings of securities and other assets in combination with credit enhancements and derivative products. His extensive experience includes a variety of credit linked products, equity linked products, total return swaps, credit default swaps, interest rate linked products, cash flow swaps, foreign exchange linked products, commodity linked products, caps, GICs, asset swaps, monoline insurance policies and various types of liquidity facilities. Mr. Adams has represented buyers and sellers in credit card account portfolio transactions and wholesale mortgage loan transactions. He has also represented project developers, commercial lenders, equity investors and investment banks in connection with project financing matters.

Prior to joining Katten, Mr. Adams practiced at McKee Nelson LLP; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; and Brown & Wood LLP.

Education and Bar Admissions

Mr. Adams received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from Colby College in 1991 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996. He is admitted to practice in New York. Mr. Adams is regularly quoted on various structured finance topics in leading financial industry publications.