Why choose our issuer, trustee and servicer lawyers?
Our team assists clients across the full spectrum of products including Securitisation and Structured Finance, Loan Agency, Corporate Bonds (including High Yield) and Project Finance.Our team is collaborative, creating specific partner-led matter teams using the right individuals and leveraging Fieldfisher's wider expertise:
- Our unique offering, Fieldfisher Capital, can provide financial advice to clients on a seamless and cost-effective basis.
- Our best-in-class specialists across the firm assist on dispute resolution, restructuring, financial services regulatory, sanctions, tech and real estate.
- Our integrated European network and other long-term law firm partners can be called upon for proactive and seamless advice.
- Our alternative legal solutions service, Condor, provides additional short-term resource and technology solutions.
We
are proud members of industry associations, The Association of Corporate
Trustees (TACT) and The International Capital Market Services Association
(ICMSA) with Alex Campbell being Vice President of TACT.
Examples of our work include advising on the following matters:
Issuer & Corporate Service Providers
- a GBP and USD LIBOR remediation project in respect of 40+ "tough legacy" public securitisations. Fieldfisher Capital provided analysis on the impact of benchmark transitions on transaction cash flows.
- ongoing issues and restructurings relating to a GBPmultibillion structured finance programme following the insolvency of the originator and collateral administrator.
- a series of 40+ issues and disputes instigated by a market participant who sought to take control of the SPV issuers and their underlying assets.
Corporate Trust & Agency
- the trustee, cash manager, account bank, paying agent, registrar and note calculation agent on a GBP2bn privately placed bespoke repo-backed securitisation.
- the collateral agent on a USD300m financing of a petroleum assets acquisition.
- an escrow agent on potentially contentious sanctions issues.
- the trustee and agents on a comprehensive USD1.5bn refinancing of a luxury car manufacturer.
- the security agent on a series of CRE loans both on origination but also on post-closing amendments, defaults and enforcement.
Servicers
- the replacement of GBP LIBOR as the benchmark for residential mortgages, including liaising with the FCA re. mortgage prisoners.
- the legal title holder on the new FCA Consumer Duty Regulations across its whole portfolio of regulated mortgage loans underlying 13 public and private securitisations and funding lines.
- the servicer on a redemption of a securitisation including the associated loan sale auction process and the unwind and replacement of the servicing arrangements.