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Anna French

Anna French

USA 2026

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About

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USA

Practice Areas

Anna represents clients in securitizations, warehouse finance, participations, forward flow arrangements, and other types of structured and secured lending transactions. Her clients include public and private borrowers, originators, issuers, lenders, underwriters, placement agents, and investors. Anna has experience with a broad spectrum of asset classes, including timeshare loans, consumer loans, equipment leases, merchant cash advances, agency and private-label residential mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights, and servicing advance receivables. She also advises on customer acquisition cost financings and the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcies. In addition, Anna has experience with cross-border transactions and intercreditor issues.

Career

Co-chair, firm’s New York office Women’s Initiative; firm’s Women’s Initiative Steering Committee; firm’s Associates Committee; Structured Finance Association, 2025 Women in Securitization Rising Star Program.

Professional Memberships

Structured Finance Association, Esoteric Market Committee.

Publications

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

Education

Washington University in St. Louis

JD

2014

Columbia University

BA

2007

Languages Spoken

Russian

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS - USA - Nationwide

Band 4
Band 4

Individual Editorial

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

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Anna is practical, knows the substantive law and we rarely have to wait for an answer.

    Capital Markets: Securitization: ABSChambers Guide to the USA
  • Anna is always amazing to work with. She is so knowledgeable, keeps everything on track and is very competent at managing transactions.

    Capital Markets: Securitization: ABSChambers Guide to the USA
  • Anna goes above and beyond for our team, sharing her deep expertise and understanding of our business. She helps us meet critical deadlines and navigate complex situations.

    Capital Markets: Securitization: ABSChambers Guide to the USA

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California: Southern

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