Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Trust and Agency Services

Tara Hoffner, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, represents trustees, banks, trust companies, and administrative service providers in asset-backed securities transactions and structured finance transactions. She counsels clients on securitizations, debt issuances, equipment and project finance transactions, leveraged lease transactions, trust preferred transactions, liquidating trusts, litigation trusts, and collateral agency, escrow, custody, paying agent, and registrar roles.

Tara’s experience in trust, trustee, and service provider representation spans virtually all asset classes and transaction structures, and she has represented trustees, administrators, paying agents, escrow agents, and custodians and acted as Delaware trust counsel in some of the world’s most complex and significant Delaware trust transactions.

Serving as special Delaware counsel in Delaware statutory trust and common law trust transactions of all types, Tara’s broad opinion practice encompasses statutory trusts, series trusts, federal and state banking institutions, trustees, common law trusts, and other matters of Delaware law.

PRACTICES

Legal Opinions

Corporate Trust & Agency Services

Structured Finance

Select Experience

Securitization and asset-backed securities transactions, including auto receivables, consumer loans, student loans, credit card receivables, residential and commercial mortgages, intellectual property, licensing fees, and royalties

Equipment finance and project finance transactions

Titling trust and series trust transactions

Aircraft transactions and noncitizen trusts

Liquidating trusts, including bankruptcy liquidations and entity wind-downs

Insurance trusts

Litigation trusts

Covered bond issuances

Escrow, custody, and collateral agency transactions

Publications

“Role of the Trustee,” Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing, Practicing Law Institute

Bar Admissions

Delaware, 1996

Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1996; Woolsack Honor Society

Muhlenberg College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1993