Practice Areas
Co-head of the firm’s Finance & Derivatives Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. With almost 30 years of experience across diverse asset classes, he focuses on asset-backed securitizations, warehouse facilities, secured financings and commercial paper conduits. Practice encompasses 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 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 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. A frequent speaker at securitization industry conferences, he has conducted various securitization, litigation funding and life settlement seminars in the United States and abroad.
Personal
New York University School of Law (J.D., 1994); Oberlin College (B.A., with honors, 1991)