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About
Provided by Witold Balaban
Practice Areas
Witold Balaban is recognized by leading global financial institution clients for his knowledge of the equity markets and the various financial products developed over the last few decades to enable corporate clients to restructure their balance sheets and to finance, monetize, and/or hedge large concentrated equity positions. His market knowledge and his technical product experience makes him the go-to person for structuring complex and first-of-its-kind equity-linked transactions spanning a number of jurisdictions.
He advises clients on financing strategies relating to concentrated equity positions and on balance sheet restructuring transactions, including:
• Convertible and exchangeable bond offerings and related call spread overlays;
• Convertible bond exchanges and related call spread unwinds;
• Structured margin loans;
• Various other equity-based financing, hedging, and monetization transactions;
• Fixed and variable share forward sales and related equity offerings; and
• Structured issuer share repurchase transactions.
Career
Former Global Co-Chair, Financial Institutions Industry Group
Global Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice
Personal
JD, New York University School of Law, 1993, magna cum laude; Law Review Alumni Association Award (Third in Class); George A. Katz Memorial Award (Securities Regulation); American Jurisprudence Award in Property, Spring 1991; Order of the Coif
BA, Queens College, 1990, summa cum laude; Valedictorian