Notable Representations, Key Contacts
Clients value our ability to bring a fresh perspective to novel issues. We have been involved in a broad variety of transactions relating to the securitization of a wide range of asset classes, and we have extensive experience in the establishment of CLO/CDO vehicles, as well as credit-linked notes and customized repackaging programs. Our derivatives practice encompasses equity, credit, energy, commodity, real property, interest-rate and currency derivatives. We also have substantial and broad-based expertise in tax and regulatory issues related to these products.
Innovative Securitization Practice
We regularly represent issuers, arrangers, underwriters, placement agents, advisors and investors in a wide spectrum of securitization transactions involving a vast array of assets, including:
- ABS
- Accounts Receivable
- Aircraft Securitization
- Auto Loans and Leases
- Banked-owned Life Insurance (BOLI)
- Commercial Loans
- Commercial Real Estate Mortgages
- Corporate Bonds and Loans
- Diamonds and Related Consignment Sales Revenue
- Distressed Loans
- Equipment Loans and Leases
- Film Licensing Receivables
- Franchise Loans
- Franchise Royalty Rights
- Healthcare Receivables
- Home Equity Loans
- Insurance Broker Fees
- Insurance Premium Finance Contracts
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Life Settlements
- Manufactured Housing
- MBS
- Middle Market Loans and Mezzanine Securities
- Municipal Bonds
- Music Royalty Rights
- Oil and Gas Assets
- Personal Loans
- Private Equity and Hedge Fund Limited Partnership Interests
- Rental Cars
- Residential Real Estate Mortgages
- Residual Interest in Securitizations
- Small Business Loans
- Solar Assets
- Structured Settlement Payments
- Student Loans
- Timeshare Loans
- Trade Receivables
- Triple Net Real Estate Leases
- Venture Capital Debt
- Whole Business Securitization
CLO/CDO Practice
Our experience includes cash, balance sheet, market value and synthetic structures and has involved various types of collateral, including, but not limited to:
- High-yield bonds
- Leveraged loans
- Distressed loans
- Middle market loans
- Mezzanine securities
- Asset-backed securities
- Mortgage-backed securities
- CDOs
- Bank
- Insurance company and REIT trust preferred securities
- Private equity and hedge fund interests
We have partnered with our Bankruptcy and Litigation practices to provide restructuring, remediation and commutation advice relating to CLOs, CDOs and many other asset types. We have also represented various investors on devising strategies to enable trust preferred CDOs to maximize value from defaulted assets.
Our experience also includes advising clients with respect to acquisitions and dispositions of CLO/CDO managers and portfolios of CLO/CDO management contracts.
Derivatives & Structured Products Experience
Weil's derivatives practice encompasses the full range of the derivatives spectrum, including:
- Equity
- Credit
- Energy
- Commodities
- Interest-rate
- FX
Industry products within these and other sectors which Weil has had significant experience with include:
- Total return swaps
- Interest rate swaps
- Options
- Credit default swaps (including CDSs on bonds, loans and asset-backed securities)
- Forwards (including variable forwards)
- Futures contracts
- Equity-linked notes
- Credit-linked notes
- Accelerated share repurchases
- Call spreads
Cross-Practice Partnerships
- Integrated solutions to clients affected by the financial crisis
- Advice and deal execution on loan portfolio trades and to clients seeking to exploit other opportunities created by current market conditions, including investments in distressed assets/transactions
- Restructuring/remediation/commutation advice relating to ABS, CMBS, CLO/CDOs and other structured products
- Advice to counterparties with substantial derivatives portfolios in disputes occurring both within and outside the context of bankruptcy.
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They are knowledgeable about changes in the market, commercial, on the front foot and proactive in the service they provide.”
Chambers Global 2022
Shortlisted for Structured Finance and Securitization “Team of the Year”
IFLR Americas Awards 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Securitization in the U.S. and the U.K.
Chambers Global 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Structured Finance: Securitization
Legal 500 US 2023
Named a “Leading” Firm for Securitization in the U.S.
Chambers USA 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Structured Finance and Securitization in the U.S. and the U.K.
IFLR1000 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Securitization and CLOs in London
Chambers UK 2022
Named Securitization "Practice Group of the Year"
Law360 2019
Won the 2018 “Structured Finance & Securitization Team of the Year” Award
IFLR Americas Awards 2018