Alex is a Partner in the Finance group in our London office and Co-Head of the UK Structured Finance practice.
He specializes in commercial and consumer loan portfolio funding and acquisition transactions together with associated warehouse and securitizations. Alex has extensive experience dealing in asset origination through forward funding arrangements and associated servicing alongside loan portfolio sales and acquisitions across a wide range of sectors and jurisdictions. In addition, he advises on public and private securitizations and warehouse lending arrangements both on a standalone basis and in association with asset origination programs. Alex has the benefit of an established experienced cross-discipline team including tax, regulatory, data privacy and derivatives capable of delivering exceptional quality structured finance transactional and advisory support to clients globally. He brings a deep market knowledge and product expertise to transactions where he acts for a wide range of banks, funds and insurers.
Alex also has significant previous experience in distressed finance restructuring and insolvency, bringing an complementary credit risk skillset to his structured finance practice.
- advising a private investment company on a complex pan-European private revolving securitisation of lifetime interest loans including full transaction structuring, project management, origination funding and provision of multi-jurisdictional regulatory advice;
- acting for life insurance companies in multiple forward-flow funding arrangements for equity release mortgage portfolios including market-leading high street lender arrangements and advising in relation to the internal matching-adjustment securitisations;
- acting on behalf of private equity fund clients in numerous sales and acquisitions of loan portfolios, both performing and non-performing and including the project management of extensive diligence exercises;
- leading the Eversheds Sutherland team in the multiple phase forward funding arrangement for a UK specialist bank relating to the funding of various forms of residential mortgages and securitisation preparation;
- acting for a real estate fund in the acquisition of a number of large distressed real estate loans and associated security from a bank including subsequent restructuring and enforcement;
- leading the Eversheds Sutherland team in a substantial and complex forward funding CMBS arrangement acting on behalf of the originator in relation to commercial real estate development financing; and
- acting for a specialist bank in the acquisition of multiple portfolios of commercial mortgages – full transactional and due diligence support