Margery A. Colloff

Partner

New York Office

P: 212.238.3068

E: [email protected]

Education

Brown University B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1967

George Washington University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1977)

Admissions

District of Columbia, 1977

New York, 1982

United States Supreme Court, 1983

U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1983

 

Professional Activities

District of Columbia Bar Association

The New York City Bar Association

The New York State Bar Association

American Bar Association

 

ABA Corporate Finance Special Committee on Indenture Trustees

 

Presentations:

At the 2005 ABS Eastern Conference, Ms. Colloff was a speaker on “Mitigating Fraud in Mortgage-Backed Securities”.

 

Ms. Colloff moderated a RAND Corporation anti-money laundering seminar in Washington, D.C. in 2005 for officials from the Justice Department, CIA, and International Monetary Fund.

 

She was a speaker on “Chapter 9: Municipal Defaults” at the 2010 American Bankers Association’s Capital Markets Corporate Trust meeting.

 

Articles:

“Role of the Trustee in Mitigating Fraud in Structured Financings” in The Journal of Structured Finance (Winter 2005).

Community Involvement

RAND Corporation Advisory Board on Infrastructure, Environment and Homeland Security

 

Former Board Member of Board of Directors of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield

 

George Washington University Law School Alumni Board

 

Board Member, Board of Trustees, National Institute of Social Sciences

 

Board of Trustees, 1185 Park Avenue, NYC

 

Yale Club of NYC

 

Secretary, MLC, Cosmopolitan Club

Awards/Rankings

New York City Superlawyer beginning in 2005.

Margery A. Colloff

Margery A. Colloff joined Emmet after 25 years at White & Case LLP where she headed the Corporate Trust practice worldwide, working in their Hong Kong and New York offices. During her career she has represented virtually every major New York bank trustee. Ms. Colloff has expertise in international debt restructuring and corporate finance on behalf of bondholders, indenture trustees, institutional investors, lenders, insurance companies, collateral agents and administrative agents. Ms. Colloff also has extensive experience representing trustees and agents primarily in international finance, corporate trust, project finance, structured finance, secured transactions, and Trust Indenture Act (TIA) transactions, and counsels clients on trustee litigation, compliance issues and fraud detection. Ms. Colloff has represented indenture trustees in dozens of the largest out of court restructurings and groundbreaking cases in the United Kingdom, Asia and South America.