Tavakoli
Structured Finance, Inc.® Janet Tavakoli, President
360 E. Randolph St. Suite 3007
Chicago, Illinois 60601 USA
(312) 540-0243 jt@tavakolistructuredfinance.com Tavakoli
Structured Finance ® (TSF®)
provides
expert experience and knowledge on how to make money
with assets and derivatives as
the U.S. and Europe try to reinflate deflating economies. Clients
include financial institutions, institutional investors,
and corporations with a focus
on corporate finance and structured finance.
Engagements
include representatives of plaintiffs or defendants depending
on the issues. Plaintiff
engagements include, among others, Bank of America
N.A. et al. v. Bartmann, JPM Chase, et al. Total claims in
the
consolidated
litigation exceeded $1.2 billion. In
Re Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. Securities, Derivative and
ERISA Litigation, 07-9633; total claims in the consolidated
litigation
were $550 million.
Tavakoli
produces
exceptional
quality
expert
report writing and crisp, persuasive testimony.
Representative clients: Helms Mullis & Wicker, Day
Edwards, Mayer
Brown, Susman Godfrey LLP, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler,
and Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross LLP. For
your protection, the following protocol
is
enforced for all lawyers:
TSF
will not accept phone calls or meetings
prior
to
being
retained. This prevents false
claims
by
lawyers
of having obtained a preliminary opinion
and/or
false
claims that opposing counsel has conflicted
out
TSF
from a case. Phone
calls
and
meetings
will
be
arranged
only
after
TSF is retained.
The partner in charge
of the case - with the authority to hire experts - should
send either a letter or an email with the firm's full
contact details, the case name, including all plaintiffs
and defendants, and the requested scope of work. TSF
will perform a conflicts check. If there is no conflict,
TSF will send its terms and conditions of business. Once
these terms are met and TSF is formally engaged, phone
calls and meetings will be arranged.
TSF provides
experienced expert consulting,
report
writing, rebuttal report writing and
expert
testimony in complex structured
finance
matters and the capital markets:
securitization,
asset backed securities,
collateralized
debt obligations, credit
derivatives,
special purpose entities, traditional
derivatives,
risk management, synthetic securities,
and
cash securities.
Definition
of Structured Finance:Structured
finance is a generic term referring to financings more
complicated than traditional loans, vanilla bonds and
common equity. Relatively simple transactions that lower
corporations' funding
costs by
converting
floating rate obligations to fixed rate obligations (or
the opposite)
through the use of interest rate swaps are traditionally
considered structured finance transactions. Financial
engineering involving special purpose entities is also
considered a part of structured finance. Extremely complicated
leveraged products such as constant proportion
debt obligations
(CPDOs) and complicated securitizations such as collateralized
debt obligations of collateralized debt obligations (CDO^n)
are also included in the definition of structured finance.
Key motivations for using structured finance include lowering funding costs,
changes in debt and equity composition of the balance sheet, taking companies
public or private, freeing up balance sheet capacity, monetizing balance
sheet assets, financing assets, regulatory capital arbitrage, sheltering
corporations from operating liabilities, tax management, financing leveraged
buyouts, poison pill takeover defenses, hedge fund speculation, accounting
rule compliance and leverage. The structures may address several issues
at once including risk transfer, accounting, taxation, bankruptcy and credit
enhancement.
