David S. Katz Partner MAIN OFFICE: Washington Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 1875 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006-1238, U.S.A. T 202-303-1149 F 202-303-2149

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David S. Katz, is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington and is a member of the firm’s Financial Reform Task Force. Mr. Katz provides comprehensive regulatory and transactional counsel to banks, bank holding companies and other financial services firms. He has also served as outside counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in connection with numerous complex transactions. He has extensive experience advising on the formation of new banks, acquisitions and divestitures of banks and subsidiaries, and on government-assisted acquisitions of failed banks. He also handles regulatory supervision matters before various bank regulatory agencies.

Mr. Katz represents financial institutions, ranging from banks and thrifts to investment banks and private equity and hedge funds. He has a significant practice representing sellers and purchasers of portfolios of consumer assets in principal finance transactions, and has substantial expertise in the areas of securitization, debt capital markets and asset-based lending.

Mr. Katz has authored and co-authored numerous publications and frequently speaks on bank regulatory and legislative developments, including on various aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. He has been a member of the Regulatory Committee of the American Securitization Forum since its inception. He also served as Editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law and was a National Science Foundation Fellow.

Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Katz was a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He also previously practiced at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1990 to 1995) and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (1984 to 1990), and served as a staff attorney in the Corporate and Securities Division of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board's Office of the General Counsel (1983 to 1984).