James Warbey > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Milbank
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
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Position

Partner, Alternative Investments

Career

James Warbey has an extremely broad practice covering international capital markets (EMTN and stand-alone), securitisations, derivatives and structured finance transactions acting for issuers, arrangers and investors on numerous listed and unlisted structured capital markets transactions across the full product spectrum, including synthetic transactions.

James has considerable experience in relation to asset securitisation with a wide range of asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial property, auto-loans, leases, consumer loans and swap receivables originated across Europe.

In addition, James has extensive familiarity with a full range of derivative documentation and practice, the development of new products and the use of collateral techniques to manage risk in derivative transactions. He has advised extensively in relation to the development of equity and credit derivative products as well as insurance-related derivatives, advising a number of leading financial institutions and end-users who are active in this area. James’ practice also includes advising in relation to stock lending and repos, both in the domestic UK market and in international transactions.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products

(Leading partners)

James WarbeyMilbank

The ‘commercial, innovative and practical‘ structured credit group at Milbank is best known for its work on CLOs, but it also has a full-service derivatives practice that acts for the firm’s project, leveraged and aviation finance clients in Europe and Asia on large-scale hedging transactions. Practice head James Warbey and Robert Wyse-Jacksonhave really great market knowledge from their position as pre-eminent manager counsel in the market‘. Claire Bridcut is a key adviser on bespoke structured lending transactions for major banks and private equity funds.

London > Finance > Securitisation

(Hall of Fame)

James WarbeyMilbank

The structured credit group at Milbank is one of the leaders in CLO and Greek securitisation transactions. As well as acting for many of the largest and most active investment managers on European deals, the firm’s busy CLO practice also advises prominent investment banks acting as arrangers. In fact, CLOs account for around 70% of the work of James Warbey‘s team, in which the ‘especially user-friendlyClaire Bridcut is a standout practitioner. Although the firm lost John Goldfinch to A&O Shearman, clients note that the team remains ‘very solution-focused and commercial‘.