With the trust at the core of financial and commercial life, including corporate, banking and structured finance capital markets transactions, and used increasingly in complex, cross-border transactions and refinancings, reorganisations and restructurings, corporate trustees and agency service providers are increasingly in demand but face growing demands for scrutiny and understanding of their roles.

Allen & Overy's dedicated Corporate Trustee Group provides unrivalled depth and breadth of UK and U.S. qualified lawyers to provide specialist advice to the corporate trustee and agency services community in the UK and other key jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo. This relates to both new issues (including domestic and cross-border MTN programmes, regulatory and hybrid capital issues, covered bonds, securitisations, CDOs and all other forms of asset backed and structured finance) and "after sales" advisory work (including advising in relation to defaults, restructurings, insolvency, waivers, modifications and the general exercise of trustee powers and discretions).