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Ms Anna-Liza Harris
Work Department
Structured Finance and Securitization
Position
Anna-Liza Harris advises clients on tax issues related to asset-backed securitizations, residential and multifamily mortgage-backed securitizations, derivatives, and domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She is national co-chair of Katten’s Structured Finance and Securitization practice and a partner in the Tax practice.
An important aspect of Anna-Liza’s practice is designing innovative securitization structures. These include many “first of their kind” transactions that require both creativity and extensive market knowledge to develop. Anna-Liza has worked with a broad range of financial assets including distressed and non-performing debt, debt secured by esoteric assets, synthetics and debt issued in revolving structures.
Anna-Liza works with clients ranging from first-time issuers to frequent market participants. She counsels clients on the taxation of investment vehicles, including REMICs, grantor trusts and offshore funds. Anna-Liza also has experience with the tax concerns of private equity funds and hedge funds. She is a past chair of the Structured Finance Association’s (SFA’s) Tax Policy Committee and is a member of the SFA’s Executive Committee.
Education
JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1989; BSFS, Georgetown University, 1983
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Katten is a key contact for asset securitizations, for both conventional and esoteric asset classes. The team’s portfolio of transactions include securitizations of timeshares, agricultural receivables, electric vehicle leases, private equity incentive fees, and others. The team team also has a strong track record in matters pertaining to regulations or captive finance companies and banks. Washington DC-based Anna-Liza Harris, is a key member of the team for tax-related securitization mandates, and co-heads the team with Howard Schickler, who is turned to by clients for his track record in structured finance transactions involving residential and commercial mortgages, trade receivables and loans out of his office in New York. Chris DiAngelo
is a strong choice for mortgage financing and securitizations, an area that David Matthews also focuses on. John Keiserman and Seth Messner are both ports of call for automobile asset and whole business securitizations respectively
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Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Industry focus > Sport
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance