Matt D’Amico practices in the areas of lender and borrower representation, corporate finance and commercial law. He has extensive experience with financings for various pooled investment vehicles, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, common trust funds, UCITS, SICAVs, hedge funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds, and is the Leader of the Fund Finance Team. In addition, Mr. D’Amico is the Co-Leader of the Syndicated Lending Team and has substantial experience in the structuring, negotiation, documentation and administration of various syndicated financing arrangements, “club deals", and bi-lateral credit facilities, including acquisition and leveraged-buyout financings, asset-based loans, credit support facilities, ESOP financings, factoring, letter of credit facilities, liquidity facilities, margin securities financings, mortgage warehousing facilities, multi-currency facilities, repurchase agreements, senior, mezzanine and subordinated financings and structured finance vehicles. Mr. D’Amico also has experience with the purchase and sale of loans and loan portfolios, federal and state bank and thrift regulatory matters, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, debt restructurings and workouts, and commercial law matters.

Mr. D’Amico was an adjunct faculty member at the New York University School of Continuing Education from 1992 to 1997. In addition, he regularly gives lectures and seminars on topics relating to commercial lending, loan documentation and corporate finance. While in law school, he was a member of the New York Law School Law Review.

Select Representations

• Led a multi-office team of attorneys in connection with the representation of a major commercial finance company relating to (a) the sale of a $1.1 billion portfolio of loans to timeshare property buyers and developers in North America, and (b) the provision of seller-financing for such sale.
• Representation of Thompson Street Capital Partners in connection with the structuring, negotiation and closing of $42,500,000 of senior, mezzanine and junior subordinated debt financing for its acquisition of FocusVision Worldwide.
• Representation of The Bank of New York Mellon, as administrative agent, in connection with a committed $750 million credit facility for 130 mutual funds in the Prudential funds complex. The purpose of this facility was to provide liquidity.
• Representation of a U.S. defense contractor in connection with the establishment and renegotiation of a $35 million asset-based credit facility for working capital.
• Represented The Bank of New York Mellon in connection with a $1 billion adjustable held-in-custody master repurchase agreement for several registered money market funds advised by an internationally-recognized investment bank.
• Representation of The Bank of Nova Scotia, as administrative agent, in connection with a committed $600 million senior secured revolving credit facility for Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc., a closed-end fund.  The purpose of this facility was to redeem auction rate securities.
• Representation of Calyon New York Branch, as administrative agent, in connection with a 5-year $75 million senior secured revolving credit facility for a subsidiary of General Communication, Inc.
• Representation of an offshore hedge fund in connection with a committed €150 million global master repurchase agreement with Commerzbank AG. The purpose of this transaction was to leverage a newly-created Cayman Islands enhanced feeder fund.
• Representation of a U.S. bank, as administrative agent, in connection with a workout of a $55 million credit facility for an industrial portfolio company of a private equity fund.
• Representation of Scotiabank Europe PLC in connection with a committed €150 million multicurrency senior secured revolving credit facility for ING International (II). The purpose of this facility was to leverage investments.
• Representation of a container terminal company in connection with various finance leases of Panamax container cranes.
• Representation of a U.S. bank, as administrative agent, in connection with two committed $100,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facilities to two separate feeder funds for tax-advantaged exchange funds. The purpose of each facility was to hedge existing investments and to make additional leveraged investments in a diversified pool of assets.
• Representation of a U.S. company in connection with the creation and structuring of a margin securities finance business.
• Representation of a Cayman Islands hedge fund in connection with an uncommitted $45 million senior secured revolving credit facility from a U.S. bank. The purpose of this facility was to provide temporary liquidity.
• Representation of a nationally-recognized consumer brands company in connection with the establishment of a $150 million receivables securitization with a multi-seller ABCP conduit.
• Representation of The Bank of Nova Scotia in connection with a committed $165 million senior secured multicurrency (US$, C$, A$, €, ¥, £ and Swiss Francs) revolving credit facility for First Trust/Aberdeen Global Opportunity Income Fund. The purpose of this facility was to leverage investments.
• Representation of a U.S. bank, as administrative agent, in connection with a committed $150 million senior secured first lien credit facility for a cable television operator. The purpose of this facility was to provide acquisition financing.
• Representation of The Bank of New York Mellon in connection with a committed $100 million senior secured revolving credit facility for Franklin Floating Rate Daily Access Fund, a closed-end fund. The purpose of this facility was to leverage investments.

Bar and Court Admissions

New York, 1986

Connecticut, 1985

Education

New York Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1985

State University of New York-Buffalo, B.A., 1981