Mr Robert Villani > Clifford Chance > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Robert Villani

Work Department
Capital Markets
Position
Robert Villiani has extensive experience in structured capital markets. He has been involved in traditional and novel asset-backed and mortgaged-backed offerings as well in offerings of both traditional and novel structured credit products, investment funds and other financial instruments. Robert’s experience includes representation of underwriters, issuers, credit enhancers, warehouse providers and other transaction parties in securitizations and repackagings of commercial real estate loans, leveraged loans and other corporate debt instruments, automobile and equipment loans and leases, corporate fleet leases, trade receivables, health care receivables, and securities and asset-backed securities. Many of these transactions were among the first of their type. Robert has also advised participants in the creation and maintenance of several investment funds and asset-backed commercial paper programs, particularly those focused on the acquisition of distressed assets, and has substantial experience working with derivatives and related products.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (JD), 1989; Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (BS), 1986
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Clifford Chance‘s New York-based team works closely with the firm’s tax practice, utilizing the expertise of James Gouwar to provide comprehensive support to clients on a wide variety of securitizations, with particular expertise in RMBS and CMBS deals, as well as CLOs. The group is also well-versed in marketplace, consumer and student loan deals, as well as asset-backed securitizations. ‘Substantively knowledgeable and excellent‘, Robert Villani focuses on CLOs and loan securitizations and jointly leads the team alongside real estate-sector expert Lee Askenazi. Dual English and New York-qualified Gareth Old is an expert in risk-transfer transactions and collateralized fund obligation deals. In Washington DC, Robert Hagan focuses on private securitization and re-securitization pertaining to asset classes including performing and non-performing new origination and seasoned residential mortgages.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Industry focus > Transport: aviation and air travel - finance
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- International Trade > International trade
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance