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- Will is a leading structured finance and securitisation lawyer focusing on structured and asset-backed finance. He has considerable experience in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), asset-backed warehouse facilities, and portfolio acquisition financings;
- Has acted for arrangers, lead managers, asset-backed lenders (both senior and mezzanine/junior), investors, guarantors and originators across a wide variety of financing structures and asset classes, including commercial and residential real estate;
- In the structured REF space, Will’s experience includes advising on the establishment of repo financing platforms by way of the “back-leverage” financing of a number of UK commercial real estate loans;
- Has also advised on the establishment and restructuring of a number of CMBS transactions, both cash and synthetic, acting for both lenders (senior and mezzanine) and servicers on such transactions;
- In addition, has advised leading investment banks on the purchase and/or financing of portfolios of residential mortgage loans, including the establishment of warehouse funding facilities to fund such portfolios, and on the subsequent RMBS re-financings of such portfolios;
- Will is recognised in Legal 500 UK 2024 as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ and an ‘Up and Coming’ securitisation lawyer in Chambers & Partners 2024.