Bleiberg, who joins from Cadwalader, represents banks and financial institutions as lenders in structuring, negotiating and documenting subscription credit facilities, bespoke NAV credit facilities, cascading pledge facilities and other types of facilities for private equity funds. He has also represented lenders and borrowers in commercial lending and other financing transactions, including secured lending transactions, syndicated bank financings, receivables financings and structured commodity finance transactions. Bleiberg is also focused on innovation and emerging technologies impacting financing transactions, including blockchain technology.

“Reed Smith has a market leading global fund practice, and Steve’s addition allows us to further expand our client coverage in the US,” said Jodi Schwimmer, global co-chair of Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group. “Steve will play in integral role in the build out of our U.S. team and will be a real asset to our clients with complex fund finance needs. We are thrilled to have him join our team in New York.”