Securitisation & Structured Financing Lawyers

The landscape of securitisation is again changing. An increasingly regulated market and demand for more competitive financing instruments have heightened the need for innovative transaction structures. To achieve these structures, parties need experienced market-savvy lawyers who understand both the legal framework and the financial aspects of transactions. Lawyers with access to resources across jurisdictions and practice areas. Lawyers who know how to get the deal done.

Our group is renowned for creating benchmarks in the marketplace. We have been involved in a good number of firsts and in the last two years alone, won 35 industry accolades. This is a landscape we've helped to map.

Insight

As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) has published its revised collateral haircut schedule. The revised schedule will take effect from 1 January 2011.
In early July, the German Bundestag (the lower house of parliament) passed a law which increases the 5 per cent. minimum retention level referred to in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) to 10 per cent from 2013.

deals & cases

Allen & Overy LLP said today that the GBP1.4 billion residential mortgage-backed securitisation (RMBS) issued by Santander represents a further positive step for the European RMBS market.
Allen & Overy advised Lloyds Banking Group plc on the GPB2.47 billion residential mortgage-backed securitisation (RMBS) issue by their Permanent Master Trust programme – this is the first public RMBS issuance to access the 144A markets since the onset of the credit crisis.
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