Clifford Chance LLP

We are recognised as a pre-eminent global securitisation and structured debt practice, with our team's combined expertise spanning the complete spectrum of asset classes involving both cash and synthetic securitisation both in public and private formats. Outside the traditional asset classes, we regularly structure and execute "market first"transactions across different asset classes. We are consistently at the forefront of RMBS, covered bond, consumer ABS (including credit cards, personal loans and retail buy-now-pay-later finance), auto ABS and SME lending ABS transactions as well as CLOs, often advising on debut issuer transactions and latest structural features. Our team is recognised for its expertise involving the use of innovative securitisation and structured finance techniques, European portfolio disposal work (including NPLs) and associated asset backed financing, financing of specialty finance businesses including fintech, multi-jurisdictional receivables financing work and all forms of financing (including loan on loan, CMBS, repackings of commercial real estate assets and fund financings in the form of securitisation). We are also at the forefront of regulatory developments impacting securitisation including representing industry groups in their engagements with regulators. We advise across the entire range of market participants, including sponsors, issuers and originators, arrangers and dealers, investment and portfolio managers, CLO managers and investors, trustees, swap providers and servicers through to governments and regulators and rating agencies.