Bradley H. "Brad" Johnson

Brad Johnson is a partner in the Finance Group of Alston & Bird. Brad is a senior partner in the firm’s trust, agency and asset servicing practice, one of the largest corporate trust focused practices in the country.

Brad regularly represents financial institutions which provide corporate trust, custody, loan agency, reporting and administrative services in a wide variety of capital markets transactions, including transactions involving collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), project finance transactions and corporate and municipal bond transactions. His corporate trust experience includes the issuance of new capital market products, compliance with regulatory rules and statutes, litigation matters, the exercise of remedies in defaulted transactions, and the resolution of disputed transactions.

Brad is particularly active in representing indenture trustees in CDO/CLO and other debt transactions in connection with events of default and the exercise of remedies such as collateral liquidation and the enforcement of liens in secured transactions. In addition, over his career, he has represented virtually all types of participants in structured finance transactions, including issuers, underwriters, trustees, servicers and commercial paper conduits.