Philipp Tamussino

Philipp Tamussino is a partner in the firm’s corporate practice, resident in the New York office.  His practice includes a broad range of corporate and finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings and joint ventures, often in cross-border settings.  He also represents asset managers, investors and other clients in a variety of structured finance, alternative investment and financial derivatives transactions.

Representative Matters

• Resource America in its acquisition of ACA's U.S. CLO management business, in the auction sale of its European loan management operation and its credit management joint venture with CVC Capital Partners.
• Ascom Holding AG in its acquisition of GE Healthcare's nurse call medical device business.
• ClaimTrust in its sale to Craneware plc.
• Asset managers in numerous cash and synthetic CDO and CLO transactions.
• Resource Capital Corp in its acquisition of Churchhill Pacific Asset Management.
• Johnson & Johnson in its acquisition of Lumend, Inc., in its buyout of Merck’s interests in their European OTC drug joint venture, and in its purchase of the Viactiv® product line from Bristol-Myers Squibb.
• US and international investors in a variety of bespoke CDO, variable rate note, equity-linked note, credit-linked note, and similar transactions.
• NYFIX, Inc. in a private equity investment by Warburg Pincus.
• Promontory Financial Group in the formation of its Promontory Asset Finance venture and its PFG Advisors hedge fund business.

Previous Experience

• Resident in Covington’s Brussels office 1991-1994 and 1998-2001.

Memberships and Affiliations

• American Bar Association, Section on Business Law
• International Bar Association, Corporate Law Section
• National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), New York Council

Publications and Speeches

• "FATCA and CLOs - A Primer," Covington Advisory (8/14/2012), Co-Author
• "CFTC and Prudential Regulators Propose Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps," Covington E-Alert (4/26/2011), Co-Author
• "CFTC and SEC Propose Joint Rules Further Defining "Swap Dealer," Security-Based Swap Dealer," "Major Swap Participant," and "Major Security-Based Swap Participant"," Covington E-Alert (12/10/2010), Co-Author