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Provided by Doneene Keemer Damon

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Practice Areas

  • Corporate Trust & Agency Services
  • Structured Finance
  • Career

    Doneene Damon’s extraordinary leadership includes her roles as the immediate past president of Richards Layton and chair of the Corporate Trust and Agency Services Group. Doneene focuses her practice on formation and operational issues relating to Delaware statutory trusts and Delaware and New York common law trusts in all types of commercial and business transactions, representing issuers, underwriters, investors, and trustees. Doneene advises clients on the use of common law trusts, statutory trusts, owner trusts, master trusts, series trusts, and titling trusts in connection with capital markets transactions.

    Considered “terrific” and praised as “experienced, careful, smart and very personable” (Chambers USA), Doneene was named among the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Diversity Leaders in Business, the News Journal’s Most Influential Delawareans, Savoy Magazine’s Most Influential Black Lawyers, and a Women, Influence & Power in Law Managing Partner of the Year.

    Her practice includes representing banks and trust companies in connection with their trust and agency services under Delaware and New York law in various commercial transactions, including their roles as trustee, collateral agent, verification agent, custodian, master servicer, depository agent, securities intermediary, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent, and exchange agent.

    She also served as primary Delaware counsel in a series of first-to-market structured finance transactions employing the use of blockchain distributed ledger technology.

    Professional Memberships

    • Structured Finance Association, Board Member and Executive Committee Member, Trustee Committee, Outside Counsel Committee, Women in Securitization Initiative
    • American Law Institute
    • The Forum of Executive Women, Board of Directors
    • Christiana Care Health System, Inc. and Health Services, Inc., Former Chair of the Board of Directors
    • Delaware Prosperity Partnership, Board Member
    • Delaware Business Roundtable, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
    • St. Joseph’s University, Board of Trustees
    • St. Joseph’s University HAUB School of Business, Board of Visitors
    • Temple University Beasley School of Law, Board of Visitors
    • Experience

      Doneene’s varied corporate trust transactional practice includes:

      • Asset-backed securities, including auto loans and leases, credit cards, student loans, consumer loans, residential mortgages, home equity loans, equipment leases, litigation settlements, insurance policies, and intellectual property
      • Collateralized loan obligations
      • Cross-border leasing transactions
      • Mutual funds and exchange traded funds
      • Health care receivables
      • Liquidation trusts
      • Voting trusts
      • Independent director and independent manager
      • Private equity funds
      • Defeasance transactions
      • Capital securities and hybrid capital securities
      • Royalty trusts
      • Expert in these Jurisdictions

        • Delaware, 1992
        • District of Columbia, 1994
        • New York, 2012
        • Education

          Temple University School of Law

          J.D., cum laude

          1992

          St. Joseph's University

          B.S., cum laude

          1989

          Awards

        • American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers Fellow
        • American Bar Foundation Fellow
        • Chambers USA
        • The Best Lawyers in America, including Wilmington, DE Lawyer of the Year
        • The Legal 500
        • Super Lawyers
        • Delaware Today Top Lawyer
        • Delaware Today Top Women in Business
        • Managing Partner of the Year—Law Firm, Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards
        • Diversity Leaders in Business, Philadelphia Business Journal
        • Most Influential Delawareans, New Journal
        • Most Influential Black Lawyers, Savoy magazine
        • The National Black Lawyers Top 100
        • Delaware Barristers Association, Louis L. Redding Thurgood Marshall Award
        • National Association of Professional Women, VIP Woman of the Year Circle
        • Jean Allard Glass Cutter Award, American Bar Association
        • National Diversity Council, Leadership Excellence in the Law Award
        • Pennsylvania Diversity Council, Leadership in Law
        • Temple University Beasley School of Law, Gallery of Success
        • Saint Joseph's University Haub School of Business, Haub Hall of Fame
        • The International Women's Review Board for Excellence in Law
        • YWCA Trailblazer Award
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