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Steven T. Kolyer is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets practice and co-chair of the firm’s CRE CLO group.
Steven has broad experience in securitizations, structured credit products, fund formations and finance, and conventional securities offerings, focusing on CLOs/CDOs/CFOs and related financings in the real estate, corporate and private credit sectors. Steven is experienced in conventional capital markets and commercial lending and credit transactions and in credit-linked and other derivative products.
Steven’s experience over the years has been highlighted by transactions involving innovation and structured solutions in the capital markets. He played a lead role in the development of a number of securitization products dating back to the origins of the market, both in the U.S. and off-shore, including first-time structures with commercial real estate (CRE) and residential mortgages, commercial and consumer receivables and other types of financial assets, and in various types of CRE and non-real estate CLOs/CDOs/CFOs and other actively managed fund and specialty finance products. For many years, Steven has concentrated on CRE CLOs and CMBS, corporate CLOs 2.0/3.0 backed by broadly syndicated, middle-market, private credit and other debt, and private debt funds and fund finance. Steven's clients have included issuers, bank and non-bank debt originators, funds, fund sponsors and investment managers, placement agents and underwriters, and derivative providers and program sponsors.
Steven has been recognized by sources that include Legal 500 U.S. (“Hall of Fame” inductee and “Leading Lawyer” in structured finance), Chambers USA (Nationwide, 2006–2025) and Chambers Global (USA, 2007–2025) (Band 1 for Capital Markets: Securitization: CRE CLOs and a “Spotlight Lawyer” for Capital Markets: Securitization – CLOs and CRE CLOs), NY Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Legal 360, Lexology (LBR) (“Recommended” and “Thought Leader” for Capital Markets: Structured Finance), Who’s Who Legal, International Who’s Who, and Guide to World’s Leading Structured Finance Lawyers (Euromoney/Legal Media Group). Chambers (2022) recognized Steven as “a leader who everyone respects and recognizes” and “the best CRE CLO counsel.”
Steven earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he served as Note Editor for the Cornell Law Review, and his A.B., cum laude, from Middlebury College. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Joseph L. Tauro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Steven is admitted in New York.
