Howard Schickler
USA Guide 2024
Band 3 : Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS
Band 3
About
Provided by Howard Schickler
Practice Areas
As co-head of Katten's highly ranked structured finance and securitization practice, Howard Schickler offers clients insights formed from more than 25 years of experience representing private equity funds, special situation funds, specialty finance companies and the full range of players in structured finance transactions. Howie takes care to understand his clients' businesses, having worked with some all the way from the launch of their businesses through their growth cycle, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and restructurings and liquidations. Understanding the full life cycle of client enterprises is part of the wide perspective that he maintains in his work.
Practices evolve quickly in the highly competitive and heavily regulated world of structured finance and securitization. Howie helps clients stay on top of new regulations and investor requirements, as well as the latest strategies for structuring deals. His familiarity with industry standards allows him to alert clients to deal terms they should be considering and also avoiding. Private equity funds, special situation funds and specialty finance companies frequently turn to him for advice on complex lending and portfolio acquisition transactions, knowing that he avoids unnecessary conflict in difficult negotiations.
Professional Memberships
New York Bar Association
Chambers Review
USA
Howard Schickler continues to garner recognition for his knowledge of a broad range of asset classes, including novel and esoteric assets.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Howard is very strong."
"Howard is very strong."