Robert Waldner

Senior Counsel @Crowell & Moring

New York, NY, US

Robert J. Waldner is a senior counsel in the New York office of Crowell & Moring. He is a recognized authority on bank loan and claims trading conventions, issues, and documentation in the global debt trading market. Bob has more than 20 years of legal experience, regularly representing banks, broker-dealers, investment funds, and other financial institutions that transact in the primary and secondary bank loan, high-yield debt, and bankruptcy and litigation claims trading markets. His transactional practice concentrates on trade structure and documentation as it relates to the allocation of credit risk in the fixed income trading markets.Bob regularly advises clients participating in the market for troubled and non-performing loans and financial claims, providing transactional guidance and market insights to clients that originate, restructure, and trade commercial and industrial bank loans, distressed securities, claims arising from bankruptcy, or other litigation proceedings and any related obligations.He has assisted a wide range of financial clients in the creation of trading solutions for liquid and illiquid assets, the documentation and settlement of purchases, and sales of various domestic and international distressed and par assets, and the support of secondary loan and claims trading desks generally.Bob specializes in the preparation and negotiation of primary and secondary market loan and claims trading documentation, including agreements adopted under The Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Inc.(LSTA) and Loan Market Association (LMA) regimes and other bespoke purchase and sale contracts, as well as secondary market private securities trading documentation.He has been engaged by investors seeking to acquire strategic positions in companies undergoing financial restructuring or in bankruptcy, and often counsels these clients in reviewing and analyzing credit documentation and related reorganization or bankruptcy materials.

Duke University

BSE, Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan Law School

JD, Law