Mr Matthew Duncan > Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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100 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2N 4AG
England
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Mr Matthew Duncan

Work Department
Capital Markets
Position
Matthew Duncan is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader’s London Office. He advises a wide range of institutions and other entities that operate, invest in or deal with businesses that provide financial services and products to the consumer, financial, commercial and public sectors in the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions (including banks, lenders, credit funds, insurers, reinsurers, pension funds, alternative investment funds, investment managers, finance arrangers and fintechs). Matthew has played a significant role in many landmark, innovative “first of kind” transactions that have been widely followed by many issuers, including the first UK single-issuer, segregated, multi-issuance, residential mortgage-backed securities program. He has been involved with UK covered bonds since the first transaction in 2003 (prior to there being a legislative framework for such transactions in place). He has also played a leading role in advising fintech businesses and working on innovative fintech structured financings, especially involving the tokenization of assets and the use of smart contracts (typically using distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain) and artificial intelligence (AI), and he often speaks at conferences in this field. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Education
University of Edinburgh – LLB
University of Edinburgh – LPC
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Securitisation
(Leading partners)Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP is known for being ‘very responsive, professional, collaborative, and good at helping clients navigate tricky topics‘. It has one of the leading CLO practices, as well as being a prominent adviser on a broad range of ABS transactions and securitisations, particularly those involving niche and novel asset classes. The firm has a deep bench of nine securitisation and structured finance partners, who are ‘approachable as well as knowledgeable, and sensitive to clients’ commercial pressures‘. Among them are CLO guru David Quirolo; Suzanne Bell, who advised the originator on the issuance of £450m in notes under a master trust programme; Robert Cannon, who handles mortgage securitisation and commercial paper conduits; RMBS innovator Matthew Duncan; Nick Shiren, who handles residential and commercial mortgage transactions; and CLO specialists Daniel Tobias, Alexander Collins and Claire Puddicombe. Sabah Nawaz, who advises private equity funds, banks and corporate borrowers on securitisation and debt issuance, is also recommended. Stephen Day left the firm in late 2023.
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Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency