Overview
Global Head of Structured Finance, CLOs and Alternative Assets, and member of the firm’s Management Committee. Boris advises on asset-backed lending and securitization, warehouse facilities, secured financings, specialty finance lending and esoteric finance transactions across a diverse array of asset classes.
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.
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.
Boris has also been featured on Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week” and Nasdaq’s “TradeTalks.”
Results
- Representing clients in multiple litigation funding transactions, including mass tort loans, single event investments, secondary market transactions, joint ventures and non-lawyer law firm ownership structures
- Representing clients in establishing multiple life settlement and premium finance funds
- Representing clients in establishing life insurance premium finance platforms
- Acting as underwriters’ counsel and transaction counsel on multiple securitizations of structured settlements
- Representing lenders and borrowers in structured settlement warehouse facilities
- Assisting with timeshare receivables warehouse facilities and securitization transactions
- Representing a group of lenders in the financing of a cell tower and fiber-optic back-haul business
Recognitions
- Chambers Global
- Chambers USA
- The Legal 500 US
- Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA – Structured Finance and Securitsation
- New York Super Lawyers
Community
- New York State Bar Association
- New York City Bar Association, 2006-present
- Esoteric Assets Committee; Risk Retention Task Force – Structured Finance Industry Group
Credentials
Education
New York University School of Law, JD
Oberlin College, BA, with honors
Admissions
Connecticut
New York
Languages
Russian
Prior Experience
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
