George J.Cahill

George Cahill is a seasoned lawyer with more than two decades of law firm and in-house experience with trading agreements, structured products, private credit, and restructurings.

George advises dealers and end-users on derivatives documentation and regulations. He has significant transactional experience across asset classes, including credit, equities, energy, commodities, interest rates, and currencies, and he regularly counsels clients on Dodd-Frank and other swap and security-based swap (SBS) regulations.

George has substantial structured finance experience, assisting banks and funds with securitizations, including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), and esoteric asset-backed securitizations (ABS). He frequently advises financial institutions in credit risk transfer (CRT) or significant risk transfer (SRT) transactions, structured repo, total return swaps (TRS), and other complex financing structures.

George has deep knowledge of the credit default swap (CDS) market and counsels dealers and credit funds on disputed credit events, industry initiatives, and regulatory investigations.

George also advises creditors and debtors in connection with restructurings, liability management exercises (LMEs), and intercreditor disputes.

He has represented lenders, borrowers, and sponsors in private credit loan originations.

Prior to rejoining Jones Day, George was a partner at another global law firm. He also spent a decade as in-house counsel at financial institutions, most recently as a managing director of the Lehman Brothers Holdings bankruptcy estate, overseeing the unwind of more than a million derivatives trades in the largest bankruptcy in history.

George is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the New York City Bar Association's structured finance committee and Structured Finance Association's credit risk transfer committee.