Bio

Kalyan (“Kal”) Das is the head of the Global Bank and Institutional Finance & Restructuring Practice Group at Seward & Kissel. He maintains offices in New York City and London, England, although he spends most of his time in the Firm’s New York office. Kal focuses primarily in the areas of structured finance, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities transactions, domestic and international banking transactions, project finance, distressed debt trading, second lien financing, institutional finance and private placements. He represents numerous domestic and international banks and other institutions in all types of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Such transactions have involved structured financing, asset securitization financing (involving asset-backed securities (“ABS”), commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”)), commercial paper financing, equipment financing, secured and unsecured loan financing, senior and subordinate loan financing, second lien financing and distressed debt trading. He has recently been working on various matters involving CLO/CBO transactions (both originations and distressed deals), CMBS/RMBS transactions (including enforcement actions, mortgage loan repurchases by originators/sponsors and servicer breaches), domestic and cross-border securitizations (involving ABS, CMBS and RMBS transactions), distressed debt trading, sub-prime mortgage industry, and out-of-court restructurings relating to Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Asia and Canada.