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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Offices

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Governor’s House
5 Laurence Pountney Hill
EC4R 0BR
England
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Will Trotman

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Work Department

Structured Finance

Position

Partner

Career

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.

He 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. He 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,  Will advises 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.

Languages

English

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Securitisation

(Next Generation Partners)

Will Trotman – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner joins the ranking this year having continued to build out its UK securitisation practice. The firm now provides ‘excellent partner availability and solid knowledge of the UK securitisation market‘, and clients remark that it is ‘a top-class all-round real estate law firm that retains some excellent lawyers‘. Will Trotman, who joined from Linklaters LLP in late 2022, and real estate finance specialist Eleanor Hunwicks lead the practice. Trotman has ‘top-notch expertise‘ and is recognised as a talented structured finance and securitisation lawyer for asset-backed finance deals. He has notable experience in RMBS, CMBS, asset-backed warehouse facilities, and portfolio acquisition financings. Trotman is ‘hardworking and 100% committed, and he fights for sensible points and manages to maintain a good relationship with everyone despite the fight!‘.

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