Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Corporate Trust

Chair of the firm’s Corporate Trust and Agency Services Group, Doneene Damon focuses her practice on formation and operational issues relating to Delaware statutory trusts and Delaware and New York common law trusts in all types of commercial and business transactions, representing issuers, underwriters, investors, and trustees. She advises clients on the use of common law trusts, statutory trusts, owner trusts, master trusts, series trusts, and titling trusts in connection with capital markets transactions.

Her practice includes representing banks and trust companies in connection with their trust and agency services under Delaware and New York law in various commercial transactions, including their roles as trustee, collateral agent, verification agent, custodian, master servicer, depository agent, securities intermediary, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent, and exchange agent.

She also served as primary Delaware counsel in a series of first-to-market structured finance transactions employing the use of blockchain distributed ledger technology.

Doneene’s varied corporate trust transactional practice includes

asset-backed securities, including auto loans and leases, credit cards, student loans, consumer loans, residential mortgages, home equity loans, equipment leases, litigation settlements, insurance policies, and intellectual property

collateralized loan obligations

cross-border leasing transactions

mutual funds and exchange traded funds

health care receivables

liquidation trusts

voting trusts

independent director and independent manager

private equity funds

defeasance transactions

capital securities and hybrid capital securities

royalty trusts

PRACTICES

Legal Opinions

Corporate Trust & Agency Services

Structured Finance

In addition to firm leadership roles, Doneene holds leadership positions in many organizations, including:

Structured Finance Association, Vice Chair; Executive Committee; Trustee Committee; Outside Counsel Committee; Women in Securitization Initiative

American Law Institute

The Forum of Executive Women, Board of Directors, Immediate Past Chair

Christiana Care Health System, Inc. and Health Services, Inc., Former Chair of the Board of Directors

Delaware Business Roundtable, Board of Directors and Executive Committee

St. Joseph’s University, Board of Trustees

Temple University Beasley School of Law, Board of Visitors

Doneene also serves on the boards of directors for one public company and two private companies.

Temple University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1992

St. Joseph's University, B.S., cum laude, Accounting, 1989