Boris Ziser

Partner
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Boris Ziser is a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel and co-head of the firm's Structured Finance & Derivatives Group. With over 20 years of experience across diverse asset classes, Boris focuses on asset-backed securitizations, warehouse facilities, secured financings and commercial paper conduits. His practice encompasses a variety of asset classes, including life settlements, equipment leases, structured settlements, lottery receivables, timeshare loans, litigation financing, merchant cash advances and cell towers, in addition to other esoteric asset classes such as intellectual property and other cash flow producing assets. He also represents investors, lenders, hedge funds, private equity funds and finance companies in purchases and dispositions of portfolios of assets and financings secured by those portfolios.

Recognized as a leading lawyer in the industry, Boris is ranked in Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US for his work in structured finance. He serves as outside general counsel to the Institutional Longevity Markets Association (ILMA) and he is a member of the Structured Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Esoteric Assets Committee and Risk Retention Task Force of the Structured Finance Industry Group. A frequent speaker at securitization industry conferences, Boris has conducted various securitization and life settlement seminars in the United States and abroad. Most recently, he was interviewed for the article "Life Settlements and Longevity Swaps: Opportunities for Investors, Individuals, Insurers and Pension Funds," published in The Hedge Fund Journal.

Boris earned his J.D. from the New York University School of Law and his B.A., with honors, from Oberlin College.