Mr Rory O’Connor > Dechert LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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25 Cannon Street
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EC4M 5UB
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Mr Rory O’Connor
Work Department
Global Finance
Position
Associate
Career
Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland with a leading Dublin law firm in January 2015, Rory O’Connor has broad private practice and in-house experience with respect to corporate, finance and banking matters. Mr. O’Connor is an associate in the global finance team of Dechert’s London office. He advises on a variety of securitization, structured finance and regulatory matters, with a focus on CLOs.
In addition to his private practice experience acting predominantly for arrangers and managers in the European CLO market, Mr. O’Connor has extensive U.S. market experience as issuer counsel on a wide variety of U.S. securitizations and CLOs and is a Cayman Islands qualified attorney.
From an in-house perspective, Mr. O’Connor has completed secondments as a structurer on the European CLO desk of a U.S. investment bank and as a securities and derivatives counsel on the European CLO desk of a European investment bank.
Education
- National University of Ireland, Galway, Bachelor of Civil Law, 2009
- Erasmus University Rotterdam, LL.M., Commercial Law, 2012
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Securitisation
Dechert LLP has a large global finance practice, for which securitisation is a key source of work. Head of structured finance and real estate Aparna Sehgal oversees the London office’s securitisation work, for which John McGrath and Richard Pugh are the standout partners. Noteworthy new additions to the team include Aaron Scott, a structured finance and securitisation specialist who heads up the firm’s CLO offering, where he is assisted by counsel Glenn Weston and associate Rory O’Connor. Consequently, the firm has seen growth in CLO transactions and repo securitisations, though it also continued to advise on a wide variety of structures. McGrath and Weston acted for Palmer Square Europe Capital Management LLC in the establishment of a warehouse financing facility, and the issuance of €503m in CLO notes backed by a portfolio of primarily senior secured loans, senior secured bonds, unsecured senior loans, second lien loans, mezzanine obligations and high yield bonds. They also assisted the same client with a €389m CLO deal that included the ‘uptier priming’ concept, which is a new feature in the CLO market.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+