A Panel of Today's Prominent Lawyers
Chaim Wachsberger ’73 is a partner at Chadbourne & Parke, LLP in New York, NY. Mr. Wachsberger represents sponsors, equity investors, and financing sources in connection with energy, transportation and other industrial and infrastructure projects in the United States and abroad. Mr. Wachsberger’s work includes acquisitions and divestitures, portfolio financing, and the development and project financing of major projects. These projects often involve complex structures, multilateral or export credit agency participation, and political risk insurance products. Mr. Wachsberger headed the Firm’s Project Finance Group from 1997 until 2010 and served on the Firm’s Management Committee from 1992 to 2013. Mr. Wachsberger is ranked in Band 1 in Projects in Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009-2012). In the United States, he has been listed for project finance in Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2001-2012), Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2001-2006 and 2008-2012), Legal 500 USA (2010, 2012), IFLR1000 (2012), Who’s Who Legal – The International Who’s Who of Project Finance Lawyers (2012), The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2008 and 2010-2013), and New York Super Lawyers (2006-2012).
Robert L. Kohl ’65 is a partner at KattenMuchinRosenman, LLP in New York, NY. After graduating from Queens College, magna cum laude, Mr. Kohl went to complete his JD at Harvard Law School. Mr. Kohl concentrates his practice in public company representation, including corporate financing matters, as well as partnership, limited liability company and securities law. Robert has extensive experience in all phases of business structuring and financing, including registered public offerings (initial public offerings and secondary offerings) and private placements (including Rule 144A debt offerings), acquisitions, dispositions leveraged buy-outs, securities regulations and venture capital financing. He represents corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, both public and private, domestic and foreign. Robert has written articles in the securities regulation and venture capital areas for IPO Journal, The American Banker and Crain’s New York Business and has contributed an article to the Virginia Law Review. He has lectured on topics related to securities matters and appeared on Financial News Network and CNBC as a commentator on finance and securities issues.
Ian Feldman ’65 is the Legal Director of the Mental Health Project at the Urban Justice Center, located in New York, NY. Mr. Feldman has dedicated his career to protecting the rights of indigent people. Before joining the Urban Justice Center, Ian was an attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice in the Bronx specializing in programs for public assistance. His litigation victories there include Meachem v. Wing, which vindicated the rights of public benefits recipients to due process in administrative hearings, and Dunbar v. Toia, where Ian upheld the rights of public assistance recipients to examine their case records prior to fair hearings. The Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center is a team of attorneys, social workers and advocates dedicated to enforcing the rights of low-income New Yorkers with mental illness. They represent individual clients, bring class action lawsuits and engage in community education with the belief that low-income people with mental illness are entitled to live stable and full lives, free from discrimination.