Speakers

Jay Williams is a partner in the Structured Finance practice at DLA Piper in New York, practicing both New York and English law.  Jay advises sponsors, lenders and borrowers on private credit and leveraged finance transactions involving secured loans to companies (including at the venture and growth stage), focusing on the fintech and defense-tech sectors, as well as the formation of joint ventures between BDCs and investors making leveraged investments in loan portfolios.

He also represents asset managers, issuers and investors with respect to a wide variety of structured finance transactions, with a focus on CLOs, warehouses, private credit and esoteric asset classes.  Jay acts for managers and arrangers on new issuances and refinancings of US and European BSL and middle-market CLOs, as well as acting for third-party CLO equity providers in joint ventures and programmatic investments in new-issue CLOs (including through EU/UK risk retention compliant structures).