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Anna French

Anna French

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

Clients look to Anna for counsel on securitizations, warehouse finance, participation sales, forward flow arrangements, conduit financing arrangements, and other types of structured and secured lending transactions. Her clients include public and private borrowers, originators, issuers, sponsors, lenders, underwriters, placement agents, investors, servicers, participation sellers and buyers, rating agencies, and other industry participants. Anna has experience with a broad spectrum of asset classes, including timeshare loans, consumer loans, equipment loans and leases, merchant cash advances, agency and private-label residential mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights, and servicing advance receivables. She also advises on recurring revenue loans and the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcies.

Career

Structured Finance Association, Women in Securitization Rising Star Program; co-chair, firm’s New York office Women’s Initiative; firm’s Women’s Initiative Steering Committee; firm’s Associates Committee.

Professional Memberships

Structured Finance Association, Esoteric Market Committee.

Publications

“Timeshare Loan Securitizations,” chapter in the treatise “Securitization: Legal and Regulatory Issues,” co-author.

Education

Washington University in St. Louis

JD

2014

Columbia University

BA

2007

Languages Spoken

Russian

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Chambers Global Guide

Capital Markets: Securitisation: ABS - USA

Up-and-coming Individual
Up and Coming

Individual Editorial

Anna French is an up-and-coming partner known for her work handling ABS and RMBS matters. She has experience handling both the issuer and the borrower sides.

Strengths

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  • Anna is excellent all-around.

    Capital Markets: Securitisation: ABSChambers Global Guide
  • Anna is responsive, knowledgeable and provides good advice as we're working through.

    Capital Markets: Securitisation: ABSChambers Global Guide

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