Chris McGarry is a senior associate in the Structured Finance practice of Weil, Gotshal & Manges' London office, where his principal areas of expertise are ABS and ABCP transactions covering a range of asset classes, including trade receivables, RMBS, credit cards, CLOs, rental fleet, and auto ABS. Chris has executed over 40 major transactions during his career to date as a lawyer and banker.
Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Chris spent four years working as an investment banker in RBS's investment banking division, originating and structuring a range of structured finance transactions (principally trade receivables and RMBS) in the ABCP, ABS, and repo markets. During this time, he originated and structured the accession of RBS to Trafigura's ground-breaking Global Receivables Securitisation Programme and was the co-structurer of RBS's accession to Europcar's Pan-European Rental Fleet Securitisation, as well as working on a number of UK and European RMBS transactions and numerous restructurings across a range of asset classes.
Prior to RBS, Chris worked as a lawyer, initially spending two years as a trainee solicitor at Norton Rose before moving to Clifford Chance's Structured Finance team upon qualification, where he spent three years executing CLOs, SIVs and RMBS, usually acting as lead arranger's counsel representing clients including HSBC, Barclays Capital, RBS, Standard Chartered, Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, and Gordian Knot.