Edward J. Nalbantian
Partner

Practice Leader
Banking & Finance

Contact

(T) +44.20.7039.5145
(F) +44.20.7039.5999
(T) +33.1.56.59.39.23
(F) +33.1.56.59.39.38

Education

  • Georgetown University (J.D. 1982; Topics Editor, Law & Policy in International Business); London School of Economics (M.Sc. 1978; Fulbright Scholar); Georgetown University (A.B. cum laude 1977)

Bar Admissions

  • New York, California, and Paris

Ed Nalbantian has more than 25 years of experience in the London and US debt markets representing lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of European and US cross-border structured and leveraged finance transactions including secured and unsecured syndicated lending, infrastructure acquisition finance, and the restructuring of syndicated corporate debt.

Among recent representative matters, Ed led Jones Day's team in representing JPMorgan and the Mandated Lead Arrangers in a €3.5 billion financing of the Abertis–sponsored acquisition of SANEF, the French toll road company and, more recently, Dresdner Bank in a £1.7 billion infrastructure acquisition financing and subsequent restructuring of the Northern Ireland utility company, Viridian Plc.

Ed also has substantial experience in cross-border financial instruments, over-the-counter derivatives, and related US and Euromarket debt capital markets financings. Clients for which Ed has worked in this area include Citigroup, Société Générale, and Veolia Environnement. In September 2008, Ed was a member of a multijurisdictional Jones Day team representing a major US financial institution in evaluating and advising on its worldwide risk and documentation exposure in the over-the-counter derivatives, stock lending, and repo markets.

Ed co-chairs Jones Day's Banking & Finance Practice. Having practiced in the Firm's Paris Office from 1998 to 2004, Ed regularly lectures and publishes on structured finance topics in both French and English and has been a lecturer at the University of Paris-Malakoff. Ed is cited regularly in the Chambers directories as one of the leading banking and finance lawyers.


Edward Nalbantian