George J.Cahill

George Cahill is a seasoned lawyer with two decades of law firm and in-house experience focusing on 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 the regulatory frameworks that developed in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act.

George has substantial experience with structured products and has represented arrangers, trustees, collateral managers, and investors in a wide variety of securitizations, including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), and esoteric asset-backed securitizations (ABS).

He has also represented lenders, borrowers, and sponsors in loan originations, including private credit transactions and portfolio financings.

George regularly advises creditors and debtors in connection with restructurings, liability management transactions (LMTs), intercreditor disputes, and credit default swap (CDS) positions.

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

George is also a chartered financial analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of New York City Bar Association's structured finance committee.