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Mr David O'connor
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
David O’Connor is a structured finance and securitisation partner in Mayer Brown’s London office. He has represented lenders, arrangers, servicers, borrowers and investors in numerous financing transactions and restructurings involving commercial real estate debt in Europe. He works closely with hedge funds, private equity funds and investment banks on CMBS, RMBS and covered bond transactions. He also advises on whole business securitisations, trade receivables securitisations, warehouse lines and loan portfolio sale transactions (both distressed and performing).
Career
Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2013, David worked in the London and Tokyo offices of another major international law firm and also spent three years working as an investment banker in the European Commercial Real Estate Group at Deutsche Bank in London.
Languages
English
Memberships
Member of the Regulatory Committee of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council
Education
Admissions: England and Wales
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Securitisation
(Leading partners)Clients of Mayer Brown International LLP praise the ‘high quality of the team, its deep domain expertise, and its capacity to meet tight deadlines‘. Well-versed in securitisation across the full range of asset classes, the firm is notably involved in deals involving new asset classes, such as its key role acting for banks in the €3bn financing of an acquisition of a portfolio of buy-now-pay-later receivables. London managing partner Dominic Griffiths remains closely involved in transactional matters, and he co-leads the practice with David O’Connor, who is highly regarded for advising global investment banks on RMBS and CMBS transactions. Ronan Mellon, who is ‘very constructive in dealing with complex issues‘, is a key adviser on CLOs, which are also part of Neil Hamilton‘s broad practice alongside RMBS and CMBS. Banking and finance partner Charles Malpass focuses on real estate and NPL deals.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Environment
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Public international law