Cyperski, Robert Haws

Jay Frazier practices corporate law, with a focus on structured finance and capital markets transactions. Jay has acted as counsel for issuers, underwriters, and sponsors in private placements of both debt and equity, primarily funded and synthetic asset-backed securities, including medium-term notes, commercial paper notes, credit-linked notes, and asset-backed notes. His structured finance experience includes funded and synthetic securitizations of various types of receivables and other financial assets and the use of derivative instruments in structured transactions, including credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, currency swaps, and total return swaps. He has extensive experience representing sponsors of structured investment vehicles (SIVs). Jay also represents borrowers and lenders in the use of special purpose vehicles, reducing bankruptcy risk, reducing consolidation risk, the use of substantive consolidation opinion letters, structuring "true sales," and the use of true sale opinion letters. Some of the clients Jay has represented include: Citigroup, State Street Bank and Trust Company, Bank of America Corporation, El Paso Corporation, Ambac Assurance Corporation, The Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, and Ilion Technology Corporation.

Jay is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.