Securitisation

This securitisation training course is delivered by an expert in structured finance. She specialises in securitisation, real estate finance, banking, capital markets, derivatives, structured products and financial Securitisation regulation.

This trainer is a consultant, keynote speaker, business adviser, author and trainer. She has practised law for nearly 20 years in the banking & finance industry. She has spent her career advising some of the most prestigious global financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup & Credit Suisse. Her primary role was to manage the legal risk globally across the various businesses within an investment bank. As a trainer, she now designs and leads training workshops for senior lawyers, law firm partners, accountants, bankers and various senior executives.

She has been actively involved in the creation of innovative structured transactions; structuring, drafting and negotiating complex financings including complex repo facilities, hybrid structured products with multiple embedded derivatives, repackagings, synthetic CLOs and regulatory-driven structured transactions. This includes all types of securitisation transactions and restructuring them, supervision of large-scale remediation projects involving the mis-selling of interest rate swaps, financial regulatory projects and financial litigation.

She holds a Law LL.B (Hons) degree from University College London (UCL) and has worked in the Finance Know-how team at Clifford Chance. She trained at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP and worked on several award-winning transactions involving repackaging, securitisations and US corporate securities. She practised as a solicitor at Linklaters LLP in Singapore and has also worked in New York and Hong Kong.

Returning to London, this securitisation course trainer spent around 5 years at Allen & Overy LLP. She advised on a wide range of issues including swaps, insolvencies, disclosure matters under the Prospectus Directive, US 144A SEC-registered deals, real estate finance, master trust, CMBS and RMBS securitisations and Opco/Propco structures for loan securitisations. She was seconded to Credit Suisse to work on the Real Estate Finance trading desk where she worked on loan origination, leverage finance and acquisition finance deals. Later she was seconded to Citibank where she advised on LMA loans, highly structured real estate finance transactions, risk mitigation and syndication.

In 2007 she moved to Credit Suisse as in-house legal counsel advising on structured capital markets, derivatives and structured products including securitisation fund-linked products, a range of exotic trades, CDOs, CLOs, repos and other highly structured financing transactions conducted during and post credit crunch. She structured and documented trades that achieved the required regulatory capital and balance sheet treatment using a combination of techniques such as credit default swaps, call options or unfunded loan participations.

She started working as a specialist consultant in 2009. This involves advising her clients on complex projects involving legal, operational, regulatory and compliance matters on derivatives structured products.

• This securitisation course covers the basics, including its definition, the special purpose vehicle, the credit rating process and profit extraction.
• The different types of securitisation.
• The underlying asset's due diligence.
• Master the risk factors including the risk profile of the asset pool and regulatory considerations.
• Gain an understanding of the security & priority of payments.
• Learn about the key documents including the asset sale and purchase agreements, the deed of charge and the cash management agreement.
• Be apprised of the securitisation litigation cases.

• With regards to securitisation training courses, Redcliffe’s is the only one on the market that covers the most detailed content including case law, rating issues, and documentation.
• Covers the technical legal aspects to be considered when reviewing or drafting legal opinions as well as the structuring aspects including detailed cash flows.
• The trainer is a subject matter expert in this area and has spent over 20 years in the securitisation field.
• Participants will benefit a great deal from her hands-on experience. She has a rare combination of experience that enables her to cover the legal, commercial, regulatory and structuring aspects of this subject matter. Particularly during course discussions.
• The trainer is a lawyer with a background in Magic Circle law firms, the bulge bracket investment banks and accountancy practice. It would be an understatement to say she comes with a wide array of experience ranging from working on complex innovative transactions to more straightforward structured transactions.

This Securitisation course is a ‘must know’ for:

• In-house legal counsels at any level.
• Private practice lawyers at any level from paralegals, trainees, and junior and senior associates to partners and heads of departments involved in or likely to be involved in documenting, reviewing and negotiating securitisation and/or structured finance transactions.
• Bankers and structurers at all levels (Analysts, Associates, Vice Presidents, Directors and Managing Directors) who typically act as Arrangers, Lead Managers, Security Agents and/or Trustees in securitisation and/or various structured finance transactions.
• Transaction management/execution personnel at any level involved with documenting securitisations and/or any structured finance transactions.
• Senior corporate and banking personnel (CEOs, CFOs, Treasury Team Personnel). Especially those who have a large portfolio of assets on their balance sheet and are considering raising finance using securitisation and/or structured finance techniques.
• Insurance companies involved in securitisations and/or structured finance deals.
• Listing agents involved with listing securitisation prospectus.
• Investors such as wealth funds and pension funds are involved in securitisations and/or structured finance deals.
• Any professionals including asset managers, private equity and hedge funds involved in securitisations and/or structured finance deals.

Securitisation training courses are also a ‘nice to know’ for:

• Compliance personnel at any level are responsible for monitoring securitisations and/or structured finance transactions.
• Accountants who advise clients on securitisations and/or structured finance transactions.
• Sales team personnel at any level involved in placing/selling securitisation asset-backed bonds and/or structured finance bonds.
• Servicing agents involved in servicing securitisation assets.
• Rating agency personnel at any level involved with rating securitisation bonds and/or structured finance bonds.
• Any professional at any level who wants to understand the ins and outs of securitisation.

This Securitisation course is designed to provide extensive coverage of the important aspects of securitisation, the popular structures in the market, the legal opinion analysis and documentation.

Who should learn from securitisation training courses?

In-house lawyers and private practice lawyers alike and bankers involved in structured finance, from the documentation teams, structures and sales teams to compliance personnel monitoring such transactions as well as accountants who advise clients on securitisation and structured finance transactions. This securitisation training course will also be relevant to asset managers, portfolio managers, hedge funds and investors such as wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies looking to invest or be involved in structured finance securitisation.

Redcliffe Training’s securitisation course sets the scene by giving an overview of what it is and the reason why securitisation is frequently referred to as 'rocket science'. Due to the number of areas of law that are involved and the interplay of the various types of regulations and case law, it is one of the most document-intensive transactions among all structured finance transactions. It involves dealing with a multitude of issues simultaneously to bring the deal to a close.

We go through the different types of structures in the securitisation market and cover the pertinent issues to consider when undertaking due diligence on the underlying assets. We further cover the risk factors that are typically disclosed to investors and various regulatory considerations.

We then undertake an analysis of the security package, the priority of payments (waterfalls), and enforcement options in the event of default. We cover issues relating to enforcement and restructuring securitisation transactions.

Additionally, we will cover the key documents in a typical securitisation transaction with coverage of the closing mechanics, payment flows, ancillary letters, conditions precedent, stock exchange listing and the crucial searches to be undertaken on closing. We will go through the legal opinions that are required to be delivered and what each legal opinion should cover.