UK Law and Practice Contributed by: Guy O’Keefe, Richard Jones, Oliver Wicker and Kate Patane, Slaughter and May
Slaughter and May has a securitisation and structured finance team that advises on public and private securitisations of every major asset class, and advises both originators and arrang - ers. It has a core team of securitisation-focused lawyers in its London office, and the broader multi-specialist financing team is also brought onto matters as needed. The firm works with the best local law firms on cross-border mat -
ters. Clients include specialist lenders setting up their first funding transactions, some of the most prolific ABS issuers in Europe and a num - ber of the largest global banks, which come to Slaughter and May for their highest value, most complex and innovative structured transac - tions. The team regularly works on STS secu - ritisations in the UK and EU, and also on deals marketed to US and other global investors.
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Guy O’Keefe has a wide-ranging financing practice that covers securitisation and structured finance, as well as banking and capital markets. He advises issuers, borrowers, lenders and
Oliver Wicker advises on a wide range of securitisations, derivatives and structured products matters. His clients include financial institutions, investment funds, insurers and
counterparties of all types. He also advises governments and financial institutions, funds and lending platforms on various matters, including restructuring and asset sales.
non-bank originators. Recent work has included advising on a number of RMBS and related financings for originators, inter-bank credit protection and bank funding structured through CDS, total return swaps, risk participations and repo arrangements, loans through or involving options and collars, and assisting clients with MiFID II and clearing compliance. Oliver is also head of the derivatives practice at Slaughter and May.
Richard Jones is head of the securitisation practice at Slaughter and May and has over 20 years’ experience advising on securitisations and other structured finance transactions,
Kate Patane is a professional support lawyer in the securitisation and structured finance team at Slaughter and May. She has extensive experience in advising
covering credit card, store card, point-of-sale, personal loan, auto loan, trade and commercial and residential mortgage receivables. He also advises on whole-business securitisations and regulatory capital-driven internal securitisations. Richard frequently works on master trust and standalone public transactions, as well as private and bilateral transactions, and related structures such as whole loan and forward flow arrangements. He regularly speaks at industry events and is one of the firm’s key points of contact with AFME.
arrangers, lead managers, rating agencies, issuers and trustees on the structuring and rating of transactions of various receivables, including auto loans, RMBS and CMBS. Recently, Kate has written articles for the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and Legal 500.
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