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Mr Robert Villani

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+1 212 878 8214 robert.villani@cliffordchance.com

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Robert Villiani has extensive experience in structured capital markets. He has been involved in traditional and novel asset-backed and mortgaged-backed offerings as well in offerings of both traditional and novel structured credit products, investment funds and other financial instruments. Robert’s experience includes representation of underwriters, issuers, credit enhancers, warehouse providers and other transaction parties in securitizations and repackagings of commercial real estate loans, leveraged loans and other corporate debt instruments, automobile and equipment loans and leases, corporate fleet leases, trade receivables, health care receivables, and securities and asset-backed securities. Many of these transactions were among the first of their type. Robert has also advised participants in the creation and maintenance of several investment funds and asset-backed commercial paper programs, particularly those focused on the acquisition of distressed assets, and has substantial experience working with derivatives and related products.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (JD), 1989; Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (BS), 1986

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization

Noted for its expertise in the residential and commercial mortgage arenas, Clifford Chance represents clients in RMBS and CMBS transactions, with demonstrable capability establishing structures to comply with risk retention requirements for CLOs and advising on CRE CLOs in the US. The New York-based team, which is well-placed to collaborate with the firm’s tax group on mortgage-backed securities, counts asset-backed securitizations, marketplace and consumer lending, as well as student loan mandates, in its workload. Robert Villani, who advises on CLOs and consumer loan securitizations, jointly leads the practice alongside real estate expert Lee Askenazi, who focuses on CMBS and RMBS transactions, in addition to asset-backed securitizations. Jim Cotins and Matt Lyons handle the securitization of commercial real estate assets, while Washington DC-based Robert Hagan advises on private securitizations and re-securitization transactions of a range of asset classes. Other key contacts in the group include James Gouwar, who focuses on the tax aspects of structured finance transactions, Alistair Dunlop and Gareth Old.

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