Loans, Assignments and Participations

Antony C. Gooch is a partner of Cleary, Gottleib, Steen & Hamilton, based in the firm's New York office. He works on international financial and commercial transactions, including documentation for transactions of the kinds illustrated in this volume, domestic and international loans, sovereign debt restructuring, international debt and equity issues, investment company offerings, asset securitisations, privatisations and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr Gooch grew up in Brazil, and his practice includes work for Brazilian private- and public -sector entities, as well as international investors, lenders and investment banks with interests in Brazil and other Latin American countries. He holds a B.A degree from the University of the South, a diploma from the College of Europe and J.D and M.C.J. degrees from New York University School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review.

Linda B. Klein is counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton, based in the firm's New York office. She works on a wide variety of domestic and international financial transactions. Her practice includes work on derivative transactions of all kinds, as wekk as international loans and issues of debt and equity, particularly those involving Latin American borrowers and issuers, sovereign and private-sector debt restructuring, participation and assignment agreements and structured financings. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queens College and J.D and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, where she taught Latin American literature from 1971 to 1976 and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational Law in 1978-1979.