Practice Areas | Structured Finance & Securitisation

SJ Berwin's market-leading position in the private equity, fund formation and real estate arenas allied to its rapidly growing finance capability has led to SJ Berwin being at the forefront in developing financing structures for our clients in the alternative investment market.

Increasingly complex structured finance techniques including the use of and combination of senior and mezzanine structures with elements of high yield debt and bond programmes, are becoming common place in the market. Securitisation is also an increasingly common financing technique used to release and enhance returns for its clients on assets. In keeping with SJ Berwin's commitment to staying at the cutting edge of legal services, SJ Berwin now has a team of Structured Finance & Securitisation lawyers focused on these areas.

With SJ Berwin's breadth of experience and expertise in alternative investments, derivatives, and financial services, and a well-established and rapidly expanding banking team, the firm is able to offer specific expertise in structured finance, structured products and capital markets financing arrangements for private equity, real estate and hedge funds.

Talk to us about a range of structured finance arrangements, capital markets, debt issues and securitisation such as:

• Senior and Mezzanine debt structures
• Security and Subordination issues
• Alternative "Mezzanine" structures
• Collateralised debt obligations
• Collateralised funds obligations
• Commercial paper programmes
• Medium-term note programmes
• Asset-backed issues