James Warbey > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Milbank Offices

100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
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James Warbey

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)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-Jackson ‘have 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)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-friendly‘ Claire 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‘.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Finance > Securitisation
- Leading partners London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Derivatives and structured products London > Finance
- Securitisation London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > High yield
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Transport > Aviation
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium