Paul Hastings has bolstered its structured credit score apply in London with the appointment of Weil’s Brian Maher.
The regulation agency mentioned that Maher advises banks, credit score funds, and personal fairness companies on a broad vary of structured finance issues, together with all types of securitization and asset-based lending, CLOs, performing and non-performing mortgage portfolio acquisitions and financings, improvement loans, restructurings, warehouse services, and secured mortgage transactions.
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Maher is the most recent structured finance lawyer it has employed from rival agency Weil, Gotshal & Manges, having appointed Shawn Kodes to affix its New York workplace in April.
“Brian is an elite structured finance lawyer with a synergistic apply that bolsters our increasing asset-backed financing and capital markets securitization capabilities,” mentioned agency chair Frank Lopez. “His arrival provides additional power to our top-of-market finance platform and enhances our capability to deal with advanced various financing transactions for our shoppers.”
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Maher repeatedly advises main funds and monetary establishments together with Apollo, Barclays, Deutsche Financial institution, Haydock Finance, and Redding Ridge on bespoke asset-backed finance transactions.
“Paul Hastings is a serious drive within the international structured credit score market,” mentioned Maher. “That is an unimaginable alternative to deliver my extremely complementary apply to the Paul Hastings platform, collaborating with colleagues to proceed constructing our premier choices in asset-backed finance, securitization, derivatives, and associated monetary merchandise.”
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