James P Patti

Practice Areas

Clients leverage Jim Patti’s deep knowledge in emerging markets advising on complex, cutting-edge transactions on matters related to structured finance, Eurobonds, Tier 2/AT1 financings, project finance (principally with airports) and general lending (secured and unsecured).

Jim represents clients involved with transactions in emerging markets, including Brazil, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Russia and Turkey, and has been particularly active in Latin America and Türkiye. His work emphasizes fundraising in all its forms, and he is often involved in complex, cutting-edge transactions for which broad knowledge of the emerging markets is very beneficial. Of note, Jim established the first “future flow“ transactions in Brazil and Peru, the first three MTN programs in Türkiye, the first Basel III-compliant Tier 2 issuance in Türkiye, and the first two cross-border residential mortgage-covered bond programs in Türkiye.

Clients served by Jim include most of the large Turkish banks, banks in Latin America, various IFIs and investors in structured finance transactions.