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Shawn Kodes
Position
Partner
Career
Partner in Weil’s Structured Finance and Derivatives Practice. Mr. Kodes advises issuers, sponsors, underwriters, placement agents, investors, asset managers and rating agencies in structuring, negotiating and documenting asset-backed and other structured finance transactions, including related restructuring work. He is a business-focused advisor whose clients rely on his practical judgment and highly responsive approach to client service. He has extensive experience in the securitization of a broad range of asset types, both in the United States and abroad, including corporate loans, auto loans and leases, equipment loans and leases, rental car fleets, credit card receivables, trade receivables, student loans, unsecured consumer loans, commercial loans, music royalties, high-yield bonds, healthcare receivables, insurance broker fees, whole business securitizations and residual interests in securitizations.
Education
New York Law School (JD, cum laude, 2007); Syracuse University (BA, cum laude, 2004).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization
(Next Generation Partners)Clients believe that Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s securitization lawyers ‘excel at getting deals done while protecting their clients’ interests vigorously’. In 2021, the group handled significant esoteric securitizations, involving assets including diamond inventories. The group also has an established whole-business securitization practice, in addition to solid ABS and CLO product lines. The department is led by New York’s Frank Nocco
, who also co-leads the firm’s global structured finance and derivatives group, and has experience in transactions in the US and abroad. Also in New York, Shawn Kodes has broad securitization experience, spanning auto and equipment loans and leases, consumer and commercial loans, and healthcare receivables; and Jason Smith is well-versed in structuring rental car fleet financings, and vehicle and equipment lease securitizations.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners - United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Structured finance: securitization - United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense