Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Finance Transactions

Senior Counsel - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Robert Pedersen advises clients on commercial and corporate matters.  Bob focuses his practice on corporate trust and is the Global Leader of the firm’s Corporate Trust Team.  Bob represents banks in the U.S. and London as trustee, fiscal agent, issuing agent, collateral agent, security trustee, property trustee, exchange agent, tender agent, calculation agent, escrow agent, auction agent and registrar and paying agent in domestic (U.S.) and international (Global Americas, EMEA and APAC) secured and unsecured debt transactions (including investment grade and high-yield bonds, structured finance, municipal finance, project finance, sovereign debt, collateral agencies, utility mortgage bonds, trust preferred securities and equity units involving Trust Indenture Act qualified- and non-qualified and SEC registered and unregistered issuances), consent solicitations, exchange offers and tender offers, domestic and international defaulted debt (including sovereign debt) restructurings, bankruptcies and insolvency proceedings and corporate trust litigation.

Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Bob was a partner at a Wall Street law firm where he practiced corporate and securities law for over 25 years, representing clients on corporate, corporate finance, securities and general business matters, and represented an electric and gas utility extensively in financial transactions, securities issuances, disaggregation and corporate and corporate governance  matters, as well as electric utilities in the drafting of model power plant construction contracts.

Bob is a frequent presenter of training sessions on indentures and Trust Indenture Act issues to corporate trust departments; and adviser in the U.S. and London on corporate trust regulatory, compliance and policy matters, corporate trust documentation, default duties and litigation affecting indenture trustees. Bob is consulted by issuers’ and underwriters’ counsel on indenture and Trust Indenture Act issues and financial regulatory matters. He and his corporate trust clients partner with the capital markets community on developing new financial products.