Joseph Gambino

Joseph Gambino focuses his practice on structured credit products, with an emphasis on collateralized loan obligation transactions (CLOs) and structured lending facilities backed by pools of corporate loans and other assets. He advises arrangers and collateral managers of CLOs on regulatory issues and structuring solutions relating to the U.S. securities laws and the U.S. risk retention rules. Joe has experience representing financial institutions and credit funds in complex financing transactions and representing financial institutions in developing a variety of financial instruments backed by derivatives and insurance-linked products.

Work highlights

Highlights of Joe's experience include:

• Representing arrangers, issuers and collateral managers in the structuring and placement of CLOs totaling in excess of $20 billion since 2017.
• Representing arrangers and issuers in the structuring and placement of 4 collateral bond obligation transactions since 2017.
• Representing commercial banks, credit funds and insurance companies in the structuring of finance facilities, backed by loans and other asset-backed securities.
• Counsel to the structuring and placement agent of the largest structured settlement securitization transaction of all time.
• Active secondary trader of CLOs, ABS CDOs, TruPs CDOs and MAV II.
• Structuring and marketing pre-GFC collateralized fund obligations (CFOs) and collateralized debt obligations backed by bank and insurance trust preferred securities (TruPS CDOs).

Joseph’s published works include:

• “Return of the Refi: CLO Rate Adjustment Transactions after COVID-19,” The Real Estate Finance Journal, Thomson Reuters (Summer 2021).