Recent years have seen our securitisation team grow considerably. The range of products we advise on is broad:
- cash and synthetic securitisations
- whole business deals
- complex CDOs/repackagings
- structured notes
in asset classes which include:
- commercial and residential mortgages
- consumer and trade receivables
- corporate loans
- property rentals
- equipment leases
- insurance
Our balanced client base includes leading blue-chip underwriters/lead managers, as well as major corporate issuers/originators, trustees and rating agencies. HBoS, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers, Friends Provident, Morgan Stanley and Société Générale.
We bring in other specialists as and when they are needed. Lawyers from our M&A, tax, derivatives, property regulation and IP groups are a regular fixture on deal teams. Our US securities lawyers in London advise on the sale of securities into the US.
Our international service is further strengthened by our close links with alliance partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe, and through our European Finance Group.
The firm’s securitisation capability is “... going from strength to strength.”
Chambers UK, 2007
Clients rave that they have “never asked a question about market practice that hasn’t been answered properly.”
Chambers UK, 2007