Securitization & Structured Finance

Milbank is an international law firm of approximately 630 lawyers and a leader in creating and applying innovative structured finance and securitization techniques to meet the growing and diverse capital needs of U.S. domestic issuers, issuers in the EEC and issuers in the emerging international markets.

We regularly represent issuers, sponsors, underwriters, structuring advisors, collateral managers, credit enhancers and investors in structured finance and securitization transactions throughout the world. Regardless of the party represented, we are routinely involved in the structuring and development of pilot projects, model contracts and cutting edge transactions that often become the market precedent for subsequent transactions. Due to the breadth of our experience, we bring to the representation of all parties a special insight into the requirements of participants across the table that enables us to devise creative and cost-efficient solutions to the issues that arise in these complex transactions.

We recognize that one of the unique aspects of the structured finance and securitization practice is its inter-disciplinary nature. The delivery of top quality legal services to structured products clients requires the assistance of professionals with expertise in tax, bankruptcy, capital markets, credit derivatives, creditors' rights, bank regulatory matters and ERISA. Accordingly, partners in each of these areas are integral members of our structured finance team. In addition, to better meet the diverse and international needs of our clients, we advise on both New York law and English law.

Milbank's prime objective is to ensure that the team we put forward on any transaction has the necessary balance of skills and experience to provide our clients with the requisite level of advice and support. We staff transactions as efficiently as possible, maintaining a small team that is familiar with all aspects of the transactions. Given the depth of resources available in each of our offices, we can also provide, when necessary, larger teams of lawyers to meet multi-jurisdictional needs and tight time constraints in order to ensure that complex transactions close successfully. We seek to achieve our clients' business goals while being sensitive to client preferences as to the identity and number of individuals involved in any particular aspect of the transaction

Partners

Brown, Winthrop N.
Cooke, Warren F.
Davis, Trayton M.
Gray, Richard M.
Grushkin, Jay D.
Hardin, Elizabeth
Impastato, David J.
Moser, Eric K.
Mullen, Robert W., Jr.
Pisa, Albert A.
Robertson, Elihu F.
Stagliano, David A.
Tyson, Blair M.
Van Norden, Tad
Walker, John
Warbey, James