Alston & Bird LLP

Admitted in England, Wales, Ireland, and Brussels, Tom excels in cross-border structured and warehouse financing. He supports U.S. investment into Europe and the UK and works with European and UK-based entities on U.S. investments.

Tom focuses on domestic and international structured, warehouse, and real estate finance transactions. He represents investment banks, commercial banks, issuers, debt and equity funds, noteholder groups, and other market participants on a variety of structured transactions (including CMBS, RMBS, CLO, and ABS), loan transactions (including private credit, loan syndications, and senior/mezzanine financings), and warehouse arrangements. Tom has particular expertise tailoring U.S. transactions to facilitate EU and UK investment (and vice versa), including risk retention and regulatory compliance.

Tom has additional experience acting for both sellers and purchasers of whole loans, subordinate debt, and mezzanine loans, as well as acting for third-party loan servicers in their appointments. He has also acted on Shariah-compliant financings, including murabaha and ijara structures.

Tom combines his experience with “real world” experience gained as part of the investment team of the European Real Estate Debt Fund at a leading institutional asset manager, where he focused on private credit whole and mezzanine loan originations across the UK, Western Europe, and the Nordics.