Gross, Ronald S.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Ron Gross has substantial experience in a wide array of financing transactions, including complex structured financings, asset securitizations, acquisition facilities, secured and unsecured working capital facilities, secured commodity hedges, and other secured transactions involving many classes of assets. He has represented institutional lenders, monoline insurers, borrowers, and other capital users in a variety of industries. In particular, Ron has experience representing companies and capital providers in the energy industry and in the securitization of intellectual property assets.

Ron's representative transactions include advising a multinational company in the $1.5 billion repo financing of structured preferred shares of a Cayman Islands special purpose subsidiary, representing Chrysler in connection with the federal program to support auto suppliers through the sale of auto receivables to a special purpose vehicle financed by the U.S. Treasury, and advising the bond insurer in a whole business securitization of restaurant franchise agreements and related royalties, intellectual property, and other assets. In the energy area, Ron represents project companies and financial institutions in connection with intercreditor issues in secured commodity hedge transactions.

Companies for which Ron has worked on substantial matters include Agilent Technologies, Ambac Assurance, Harry and David, Invenergy, and Morgan Stanley.

Ron is an active member of the American Bar Association. He is on the Law Firm Advisory Board of the Working Group on Legal Opinions and was a past co-editor of the Annual Survey of the Uniform Commercial Code and co-chair of the Business Law Education Committee.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Energy
• Lending
• Project Finance
• Securitization
• Energy Finance
• Energy/Utilities
• Financial Services

Representative Cases

• Agilent Technologies repurchases structured preferred stock
• Alliant Techsystems obtains credit facility
• Ambac Assurance insures debt in structured financing by film studio
• Ambac Assurance issues financial guaranty insurance policy in securitization of McDonald's franchisee loans
• Ambac Assurance participates in several energy-related financings
• Ambac Assurance serves as credit enhancer in whole business securitization of Sonic Corporation
• Bank of Ireland provides credit facility for fund-of-funds
• El Paso closes $1.2 billion bridge financing
• El Paso raises $1 billion of capital in financing
• Harry & David obtains credit facility
• P&G obtains financing to facilitate sale of Sunny Delight and Punica drink business units
• RBS provides credit facility to Carlyle Real Estate Partners
• RBS provides credit facility to major European real estate investment fund
• Tanjong SPV obtains financing for acquisitions from EDF International
• WestLB restructures interest in coal mines
• WestLB secures bridge financing for natural gas pipeline company acquisitions , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, International Banking, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Public Finance, Savings & Thrifts, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Boston University
• George Washington University
• Michigan State University

Published Works

• FDIC Changes Loss-Sharing on Failed Bank P&As, 2010

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New York, NY 10017-6702

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