David Palmer > Hogan Lovells International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Hogan Lovells International LLP
ATLANTIC HOUSE
HOLBORN VIADUCT
LONDON
EC1A 2FG
England

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Counsel

Career

David Palmer is a counsel in the firm’s Capital Markets team. He advises on a range of securitisation and structured debt capital markets transactions covering a number of different asset classes. David’s current areas of focus include public and private securitisation transactions and forward flow arrangements in the automotive and Fintech sectors and is also active in the residential mortgage and consumer loan space.

In the automotive sector David has worked with originators, arrangers, and investors on a number of private and public transactions involving automotive hire purchase, lease and loan receivables and dealer floorplan receivables in jurisdictions across Europe, including one of the first UK automotive STS transactions.

In the Fintech sector David has worked with alternative bank lenders and investors on public and private securitisations and forward flow transactions in the consumer and SME space.

David has co-authored several articles, including for the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in respect of online lending platforms and securitisation.

Languages

English, Italian

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Securitisation

At Hogan Lovells International LLP, ‘the team is composed of exceptional individuals with a deep knowledge of what is needed to deliver a trade receivables securitisation‘. The firm’s work encompasses a broad range of ABS transactions, with a growing presence in mortgage-backed structures, and clients note that the partners are ‘really solution-driven and try always to strike the right balance from the start‘. Standout partner Julian Craughan has a particular focus on consumer and SME assets, including residential, automotive, lease, buy-now-pay-later and unsecured loan securitisations. He advised UK mortgage lender Enra Specialist Finance on a forward flow transaction backed by buy-to-let mortgage loans. Prominent partner Tauhid Ijaz assisted warehouse lender, seller and retention holder Apollo Asset Management with a €365m Dutch RMBS deal, which is a prime example of the firm’s growing role in residential mortgage transactions. Newly promoted partner David Palmer has ‘very deep subject matter expertise and an ability to focus in on the key issues‘.  He worked with US-qualified partner Dennis Dillon on the £120m financing of a warehouse for SME merchants originated by Liberis Limited.