Full Name
Jeffrey Nagle
Job Title
Finance Partner
Company
Cadwalader
Speaker Bio
Jeff Nagle is Head of Corporate and Commercial Finance. He represents clients in a wide variety of financing transactions including leveraged finance and other syndicated bank loan transactions, NAV financings, the financing of financial assets, distressed debt trading, asset-based lending, commodities financings, energy project financings and rescue financing, workouts, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings. Jeff’s clients include many of the world’s leading domestic and foreign commercial banks, investment banks and other financial institutions, including hedge funds.
Jeff is part of the Cadwalader team selected by the Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) to assist in guiding the post-LIBOR financial world in developing best practices for fallback language across all cash products. He has been described by Chambers USA as “a major expert on LIBOR reform and emerging benchmark regulation” and is a frequent speaker on subjects relating to the LIBOR transition, having spoken at various Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA) programs on topics including, “A Deep Dive into Hardwired Fallback Language,” “Demystifying the LSTA’s SOFR Concept Credit Agreement” and “Post-LIBOR Credit Agreements: What Changes and What Stays the Same?”; as a speaker on the panel “LIBOR Transition: Is Your Organization Prepared” at KPMG’s 2019 Global Financial Reporting and Valuation Conference; and on implications of the LIBOR transition for the corporate loan market at the Syndications and Lender Relations Subcommittee Meeting at the 2020 American Bar Association Business Law Virtual Section Annual Meeting. Jeff is the co-author of “The Demise of LIBOR – Tax and Transfer Pricing Implications,” published in Bloomberg Tax on November 26, 2019.
He is also focused on innovation and emerging technologies impacting financing transactions, including blockchain technology. Jeff’s writing on blockchain includes the two-part article “From Bills of Lading to Blockchain Structures,” published in Law360 in August 2017, and the article “Using Blockchain to Replace Deposit Account Control Agreements,” published in Bloomberg Law on September 11, 2017.
Jeff has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and leading practitioner in bank lending by IFLR1000 and as a top-ranked banking and finance lawyer by Chambers USA. In 2023, Jeff was elected to the Board of Regents of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (ACCFL), to which he was inducted in 2021 as a fellow in recognition of his market reputation and service to clients and, in particular, his work on the LIBOR transition.
He received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law, and he is a summa cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, where he also received an M.A. in Russian Language, Literature and Culture. Jeff is fluent in Russian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Jeff is part of the Cadwalader team selected by the Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) to assist in guiding the post-LIBOR financial world in developing best practices for fallback language across all cash products. He has been described by Chambers USA as “a major expert on LIBOR reform and emerging benchmark regulation” and is a frequent speaker on subjects relating to the LIBOR transition, having spoken at various Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA) programs on topics including, “A Deep Dive into Hardwired Fallback Language,” “Demystifying the LSTA’s SOFR Concept Credit Agreement” and “Post-LIBOR Credit Agreements: What Changes and What Stays the Same?”; as a speaker on the panel “LIBOR Transition: Is Your Organization Prepared” at KPMG’s 2019 Global Financial Reporting and Valuation Conference; and on implications of the LIBOR transition for the corporate loan market at the Syndications and Lender Relations Subcommittee Meeting at the 2020 American Bar Association Business Law Virtual Section Annual Meeting. Jeff is the co-author of “The Demise of LIBOR – Tax and Transfer Pricing Implications,” published in Bloomberg Tax on November 26, 2019.
He is also focused on innovation and emerging technologies impacting financing transactions, including blockchain technology. Jeff’s writing on blockchain includes the two-part article “From Bills of Lading to Blockchain Structures,” published in Law360 in August 2017, and the article “Using Blockchain to Replace Deposit Account Control Agreements,” published in Bloomberg Law on September 11, 2017.
Jeff has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and leading practitioner in bank lending by IFLR1000 and as a top-ranked banking and finance lawyer by Chambers USA. In 2023, Jeff was elected to the Board of Regents of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (ACCFL), to which he was inducted in 2021 as a fellow in recognition of his market reputation and service to clients and, in particular, his work on the LIBOR transition.
He received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law, and he is a summa cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, where he also received an M.A. in Russian Language, Literature and Culture. Jeff is fluent in Russian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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