• Represented The Coca-Cola Company against allegations of infringement of seven US patents directed to refrigerated beverage dispensers, asserted against Coca Cola’s revolutionary Freestyle beverage dispenser, and reached a favorable settlement just before trial. Beverage Dispensing Solutions, LLC v. The Coca-Cola Company, Civil Action No. 14-cv-00220, US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (transferred from the Southern District of Illinois)*
• Defeated ATOM Instrument Corporation’s appeal of client Petroleum Analyzer Company’s victory at trial, resulting in a zero liability judgment on ATOM’s claims of trade secret misappropriation and civil theft. ATOM Instrument Corporation, et al. v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, LP, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit*
• Defeated at trial ATOM Instrument Corporation’s claims of trade secret misappropriation and civil theft and obtained recovery of over $1.3 million in attorneys’ fees. ATOM Instrument Corporation, et al. v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, LP, US District Court for the Southern District of Texas*
• Defeated $14.5 million trade secrets claim that alleging that Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. was violating a state court order enjoining its use of certain excimer technologies to detect and measure trace amounts of sulfur in petroleum products. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. v. Franek Olstowski and Atom Instrument Corporation, Civil Action No. 2006-53995, 269th District Court, Harris County, Texas*
• Won summary judgment of invalidity (unpatentable subject matter), defeating allegations of infringement of four US patents directed to RFID tracking technologies. Automated Tracking Solutions, LLC v. ValidFill, LLC et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia*
• Obtained a favorable settlement within 11 months of filing, by establishing evidence of misappropriation of ACS’s trade secrets. ACS State Healthcare LLC v. Wipro Inc., et al., Delaware Court of Chancery*
• Secured a favorable settlement for Dornier Medtech, just after the close of discovery and six months before the remaining defendants were hit with $46 million jury verdict. Covidien (Tyco Healthcare) v. Dornier MedTech America, Inc., et al., US District Court for the Northern District of California*
• Won preliminary and permanent injunctions against competitor’s sale of products infringing client Amstech’s trademark and trade dress rights. Amstech Inc. v. Osprey International, Inc. et al., US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm

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• Managing Intellectual Property, Patent Star, 2023-2021
• Super Lawyers Georgia, Intellectual Property Litigation, 2010-2020

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• Atlanta Bar Association
• Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
• Emory Law School Intellectual Property Advisory Board
• Faculty, Emory University School of Law Trial Techniques
• Executive Board, North American Intellectual Property Law and Entertainment Law Conference

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Ranajoy is recognised as an industry leader by both Legal 500 and Chambers. He regularly advises on a broad range of capital markets and complex structured finance transactions including:

• Securitisation, forward flow and warehousing
• Asset backed private credit
• Virtual assets
• Structured securities, insured credit and repackagings
• Receivables finance and supply chain finance
• Collateralized financing and risk transfer trades
• Financing of specialty finance and fintech platforms
• Financing carbon credits/emissions certificates
• Preferred equity and junior debt financing of real estate businesses
• Loan portfolio sales
• Margin loans, collars and other financings of listed equities
• Fund finance including subscription line facilities, GP support facilities and NAV facilities
• Emerging markets
• Islamic finance
• Venture debt

Ranajoy is recognised as one of the world’s leading lawyers in cross-border social impact finance structures, including social and development impact bonds, renewable energy and “green” structured finance transactions. Ranajoy has advised on some of the most innovative financial inclusion structures around the world, including the Educate Girls Social Impact Bond, which aims to improve the education of children in India, and the recent ground-breaking Utkrisht Bond, which is aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality. Ranajoy continues to advise foundations, governments, NGOs, impact funds and financial institutions on structuring social impact finance solutions. He recently advised on the groundbreaking International Finance Facility for Education, which is the largest funding mechanism targeting education programmes around the world.

Ranajoy is recognised as a pioneer in impact investment. He is lead counsel to the UNHCR’s Global Islamic Fund for Refugees. His work has included the market leading ‘Educate Girls’ bond which was the first development impact bond of its kind. His clients have ranged from GAVI, UNICEF, World Bank, IFC, to governments, financial institutions, funds, charitable institutions, NGOs and microfinance institutions around the world. He has been involved on groundbreaking work for Wattpad, Theirworld and The Global Business Coalition for Education.

Read Ranajoy’s biography in Japanese here.

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• Advised a near prime consumer lender on their forward flow arrangement with a credit fund
• Advised the senior bank on a tranched securitisation of UK consumer loans which achieved off-balance sheet treatment for the originator through the inclusion of a control party
• Advised RBS in relation to a major credit card securitization with SAV
• Advised Capita on the £6.1 billion securitisation of a portfolio of UK residential mortgage loans by Cerberus European Residential Holdings, the largest transaction of its kind since the global financial crisis*
• Advised an importer of Japanese cars on a securtisation where the importer would sell receivables arising from the sale of their vehicles to dealers in various jurisdictions in Europe
• Advised Innovative International Acquisition Corp. (the “Buyer”), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in relation to its entry into a definitive merger agreement with Zoomcar, Inc. (“Zoomcar”), the world’s largest emerging market focused car sharing platform
• Acted for the Ministry of Finance for the Republic of Kazakhstan on its Reg S/Rule 144a US$10 billion medium term note programme.*
• Advised the property nominees in relation to an underlying sale and leaseback securitisations, specifically with respect to the sale of 21 stores for a major retail supermarket in the United Kingdom
• Advised the issuer across eight pre-2008 legacy Lehman Brothers Japanese apartment loan securitizations, in relation to the transition from Yen Libor to the Tokyo Term Risk Free Rate
• Advised the security agent and bridge notes trustee in relation to a complex restructuring for Frigoglass S.A.I.C
• Advised a major corporate trust house in all its corporate trust roles, in relation to Nostrum Oil & Gas PLC’s financial restructuring. The transaction was implemented by way of an English law scheme of arrangement and remains one of a few English law schemes, run through The Depository Trust Company in relation to USD high yield bonds
• Advised a corporate service provider as property nominees in relation to an underlying sale and leaseback securitisations, specifically with respect to the sale of 21 stores for a major retail supermarket in the United Kingdom
• Advised Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch together with two multi-jurisdictional Wilmington teams in both London and New York with regard to its roles in relation to the Dutch reusable transit packaging group, Schoeller Allibert’s recapitalisation transaction
• Advising the trustee, security agent, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent with respect to Var Energi’s high yield offering of its US $1,000,000,000 7.5% Senior Notes due 2028 and its US $1,000,000,000 8.0% senior notes due 2032
• Advised GLAS through its multifaceted involvement as Note Agent, Security Agent and Cash Manager in relation to a successful restructuring for the Digicel Group
• Assisted Basileia Investment Holdings UK Limited with an English law review of a ZAR1 billion Medium Term Note Programme and the first Series issued under the Programme under a pricing supplement for the issuance of ZAR167 million Floating Rate Notes
• Advised the trustee in relation to one of the largest financial, debt and corporate restructurings for Naviera Armas, S.A. and its subsidiaries (c. EUR 1 billion). The complex cross-border restructuring was implemented in pursuant to a Spanish law homologación judicial (effectively a Spanish scheme of arrangement)
• Advised Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch as Security Agent in connection with a number of land-related matters undertaken by Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios, including: (i) an entry into an agreement with a local planning authority in relation to planning obligations (the “Section 106 Agreement”); (ii) a grant of an easement; and (iii) a grant of a wayleave, which in each case required consent of the Security Agent
• Advised the Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait B.S.C on its US$2,000,000,000 medium term note programme*
• Acted for Capita in relation to the sale by the UK Treasury of £13,000,000,000 of Northern Rock mortgages to Cerberus Capital Management*
• Acted for Bank of New York Mellon in relation to Wesser Capital Limited’s US$20 billion certificate programme arranged by Morgan Stanley International Plc*

Social Impact Finance

• Acted on the world’s first cross-border development impact bond*
• Advised the United Nations in establishing the Global Fund for Refugees, a first-of-its-kind USD 500 million shariah-compliant global fund supporting the developmental and humanitarian needs of forcibly displaced people
• Advised The Education Outcome Fund and UNICEF in setting up a joint fund structure, which involved the complexities around alignment between the outcomes-based model in relation to EOF’s underlying education programs in various jurisdictions and conforming the contractual structure to the fund establishment within the composition of UNICEF
• Advised the British Asian Trust in relation to the design and structuring of the first of its kind impact bond for improving the skills of young Indians and addressing the youth employment crisis, specifically that for young women
• Advised on the largest cross-border Development Impact Bond transaction, including USAid and UBS Optimus*
• Advised the Global Business Coalition for Education and the United Nations on the creation of a Global Impact Education Fund targeting education of children*
• Advised HSBC on a Gender Equality Bond*
• Advised Social Finance on a number of financial inclusion projects*
• Advised Shared Impact on setting up a cross-border payment platform relating to financial inclusion*
• Advised the GAVI Alliance on its ground-breaking international finance facility for immunization (IFFIm)*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott

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• Chambers Crisis and Risk Management, Global-wide: Environmental, Social & Governance Risk, 2024
• India Business Law Journal, International A-List lawyer, 2023
• Legal Era Achievers Awards, Cross Border Lawyer of the Year: Banking & Finance, 2023
• IFLR1000, Capital Markets: Debt and UK Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation, 2022-2023
• Chambers Global, for India Banking & Finance (Expertise Based Abroad), 2020
• Chambers Asia-Pacific, India Banking & Finance (Expertise Based Abroad in UK), 2020
• Brummel Magazine, 30 Ones to watch, 2017
• The Lawyer, Hot 100 Finance, 2016
• Legal Week, Top 20 Legal IT Innovators, 2016
• Financial Times, Young Legal Innovator of the Year, 2015
• Sean Halpin Award, 2015

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Craig represents corporate and partnership debtors, trustees, indenture trustees, creditor committees, as well as financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds and secured creditors in workouts, change of control transactions and complex Chapter 11 reorganization cases involving pre-packaged and pre-negotiated arrangements, as well as traditional plans of reorganization.

With several years of international experience, Craig has been involved in foreign bankruptcy proceedings in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Germany, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. He also has experience in ancillary bankruptcy proceedings filed in the US involving the assets of foreign debtors.

Craig assists clients in securitized loan transactions, secured and unsecured bond transactions and the establishment of bankruptcy remote special purpose entities in connection with such transactions. He renders legal opinions in reference to securitized loan and municipal bond transactions, which have been reviewed by various rating agencies. He also renders preference and fraudulent transfer opinions.

Craig has extensive experience representing SEC, CFTC and FTC receivers in federal court securities fraud and consumer fraud receivership and bankruptcy cases. Such cases frequently involve Ponzi schemes and other types of investor fraud.

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• Florida Super Lawyers, Top 50 Lawyers
• Florida Trend magazine, Florida’s Legal Elite

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• Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida, member
• Business Law Section of The Florida Bar, Bankruptcy/UCC committee
• American Bar Association, Bankruptcy Litigation and Business Reorganization committees
• American Bankruptcy Institute, member

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