• Finance      
• Corporate      
• Banking      
• Securities      
• Structured      
• Finance Derivatives  

Roger Zaitzeff is the founding principal of Zaitzeff Law, P.C. Mr. Zaitzeff was a partner at Seward & Kissel where he spent the first twenty-five years of his legal career. He was also a partner at Latham & Watkins and Sheppard Mullin, Richter & Hampton in their respective New York offices. Mr. Zaitzeff has extensive experience in (a) domestic and international finance, (b) banking and securities regulatory law, (c) structured finance, (d) asset securitization, (e) derivatives, (f) general corporate law, and (g) new product development.

• Finance      
• Corporate      
• Bank Regulatory 
• Securities Regulatory 
• Private Equity 
• Acquisition Finance 
• Structured Finance 
• Derivatives 

John Ferrell has over thirty years of legal experience in banking and securities law matters. In addition to having been a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Mr. Ferrell served as a managing director at Merrill Lynch for ten years within its then Investment Banking Division specializing in leveraged buy-out and private equity transactions. Mr. Ferrell also was Assistant General Counsel for CIT Financial Corporation from 1976 to 1982 responsible for general corporate matters including acquisitions, divestitures, and securities regulatory issues. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ferrell served as a senior attorney with the Legal Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington assisting in the development of rules of general applicability to domestic and foreign banks and their holding companies. Mr. Ferrell has extensive experience in (a) domestic and international finance, (b) banking and securities regulatory law, (c) structured finance, (d) private equity and acquisition finance, (e) derivatives, (f) general corporate law, and (g) lending finance, having represented both lenders and borrowers.

Mr. Ferrell advises domestic and foreign financial institutions on bank regulatory matters as well as the securities laws applicable to banks and securities firms and their affiliates including broker/dealer affiliates under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Government Securities Act, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He provides advice to domestic and foreign financial institutions including domestic and foreign banks on the Federal Reserve Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the National Bank Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Sarbanes-Oxley, the USA Patriot Act, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, New York State banking and securities laws and regulations, and other federal and state banking laws relating to financial institutions including broker/dealers, national banks, state-chartered member banks, bank holding companies, and branches and agencies of foreign banks. He also assists financial institutions seeking to establish a presence in the United States.
 

Mr. Ferrell has also advised financial institutions on the TARP program and has represented an array of financial institutions and companies on securitizations, debt offerings, syndicated loans, exotic derivatives, and investment fund regulatory matters. 

J.D., Columbia University Law School. President of Class for Two Years.
B.A., Harvard College, cum laude, National Merit Scholar, Harvard College Scholar.

Bar Admissions

New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States
PUBLICATIONS AND TEACHING/SPEAKING:
“Hexion Battle Highlights Tough Merger Environment,” The New York Law Journal (quoted) (November 20, 2008)
“Once obscure, Hank Paulson now nearly a household name,” Scripps News (quoted) (November 20, 2008)
“Commercial paper crunch hits – Short-term financing source impacted by Wall Street meltdown,” The Dallas Business Journal (January 17, 2008)
“Leveraged Transactions In Changing Terrain,” New York Law Journal (November 21, 2005)
The Capital Purchase Program (CPP) vs. the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP) – What Bank Management Needs to Know, Webinar (2008)