Clifford Chance LLP

Global Financial Markets

Emma Matebalavu is Head of Global Financial Markets and specialises in Real Estate Finance and all types of structured debt. She specialises in real estate related senior and mezzanine debt, intercreditor arrangements, restructuring and enforcement.

Emma advises on CMBS and RMBS transactions, acting for servicers, borrowers, noteholders and other stakeholders. She also has significant experience of securitisation of personal loan, credit lenders, whole businesses and residential mortgages.

Emma is a member of European Securitisation Forum/Association for Financial Markets in Europe and Commercial Mortgage Securities Association and speaks regularly at conferences.

Joined Clifford Chance 1999

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2000

Partner since 2008

Global Head of Financial Markets since 2022

Member of the European Securitisation Forum/Association for Financial Markets in Europe

Member of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (Europe) (Regulatory Committee, CMBS 2.0 Committee)

University College, Oxford University (Law with French law at Panthéon-Assas Paris II) 1997