Joe Zeidner is a partner in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Finance Group. Joe’s practice focuses on a broad range of fund finance transactions at all levels of the capital structure and every phase of a fund’s existence. In particular, Joe has a strong background representing major U.S. and foreign banks and other financial institutions as agents, lead arrangers and lenders in structuring, negotiating and documenting subscription credit and capital call facilities, as well as NAV-based, hybrid and other nontraditional facilities and lending arrangements. Joe has been involved in many of the largest, most complex syndicated credit facilities to funds managed by some of the world’s most distinguished fund sponsors, including representing over 30 different lead lenders on transactions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of commitments in the aggregate.

Joe is recognized in the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 editions of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for Banking and Finance Law.

He is also a recipient of the Fund Finance Association’s “Rising Star Award” for 2023. The FFA noted recipients are selected “based on their outstanding overall contribution to the fund finance industry, their firms and their clients, the FFA, the NextGen Network and/or WFF, with an emphasis on professional contributions focused on excellence in client service, product and service innovations, diversity and inclusion, career development, training and mentoring, networking and community service.”

Joe received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Drexel University, where he served as Associate Editor on the Drexel Law Review. He received his M.B.A., summa cum laude, from Drexel University and his B.S. in Biology–Neuroscience from Duke University. During law school, Joe was a national officer in the American Bar Association Law Student Division.