Tamara Box
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Work Department
Securitisation.
Position
Tamara Box is the head of international structured finance and a partner in the capital markets and securitisation practice of Berwin Leighton Paisner. She has more than 18 years’ experience in advising arrangers, dealers, issuers and trustees in connection with a wide range of debt instruments, including bonds (securitisations, project bonds, high yield, convertible and exchangeable bonds and Islamic bond issuances), the establishment of debt programmes, liability management and private placements. She has advised all participants, including arrangers, originators, servicers and trustees, in connection with the securitisation and repackaging of a wide variety of assets in numerous jurisdictions, particularly emerging markets. She also regularly advises arrangers, trustees, issuers, borrowers and servicers in connection with structured debt restructurings and workouts. More recently, Tamara has been actively involved in the restructuring of CMBS and RMBS transactions affected by the recent credit crisis and in particular by the Lehman bankruptcies. Tamara is a recognised expert in the area of securitisation, having been regularly named a leading practitioner by each of the International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Structured Finance and Securitisation Lawyers, The Legal 500’s Legal Experts, Chambers’ UK Guide and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.
Career
Qualified 1992 New York, and 1998 England and Wales. Associate Coudert Brothers in New York and Singapore 1992-96; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 1996-2000, partner 2000; Tite & Lewis, partner and head of finance practice 2000-02; Lovells, partner 2003-2006; BLP, partner 2006 to date.
Languages
English, French.
Member
American Bar Association.
Education
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK (1989 BSc monetary economics, hons); Georgetown University Law Center, (JD cum laude) Washington (1992 JD cum laude).
Leisure
Golf, skiing, reading.
Practice Areas
Derivatives; Securitisation; US - international capital markets
