Sidley

Sidley has been at the forefront of the European securitisation market since the early 1990’s and since that time has been involved in a number of ground breaking securitisation products and structures in numerous European jurisdictions, including establishing domestic and pan-European CMBS platforms, asset-backed commercial paper and securities conduits, RMBS related products, whole business securitisations and covered bonds as well as a deep experience in advising arrangers, managers and investors on CLO and CDO transactions (including establishing risk retention and other CLO fund structures). Our securitisation lawyers in Europe and the U.S. have a deep and well established practice in all areas of securitisation, structured finance and derivatives, with market-leading experience of the full gamut of asset classes and structures. Our lawyers have particular experience in securitisations and secured financings involving corporate (mid-market and syndicated) loans, rental fleets, consumer assets such as personal loans, auto-loans and leases and credit cards, trade and other more specialised receivables as well as financings of online marketplace and peer-to-peer lending and other fintech arrangements including structures utilising blockchain, distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies. We also structure transactions in innovative asset classes such as data centre, solar energy, insurance products and IP securitisations and we also have a market-leading team covering structured and asset-backed fund financing, CFOs and related fund financing arrangements.