Trayton Davis joined Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP as a partner in 1993 and is Chair of the Firm's Global Finance Practice Group and a former member of the Firm's Executive Committee. He has practiced in the structured finance area since 1985.
Mr. Davis regularly advises clients in securitizing both financial and hard assets and in other domestic and international structured finance transactions. He has represented investment banking firms and financial institutions in many significant and innovative transactions, including the first international securitizations of forward oil sales, the first public securitization in the domestic capital markets of Japanese assets, the first securitization of factored receivables, the first public securitization in the domestic capital markets of jet aircraft, the first "interest-only" securitization of leveraged-lease debt and the first offerings of stripped mortgage-backed securities.
Mr. Davis also has particular expertise in representing investors in distressed structured finance transactions, including official and ad hoc creditor committees in the bankruptcies of Enron, Calpine, sub-prime mortgage lender New Century Financial Enterprises and medical receivables finance company National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE).
Mr. Davis is listed in The International Who's Who of Capital Markets Lawyers for 2006 as well as The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and Chambers USA for 2007. In addition, he is a member of the Business and International Law Sections of the American Bar Association and the American College of Investment Counsel. He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his J.D. from New York University. |