Franz Ranero

Practice Areas

Franz advises on a broad range of capital markets and financing transactions, with a focus on structured finance and products. His structured finance practice covers bespoke funding, liquidity, regulatory capital and arbitrage structures involving both securitisation and derivatives technology, and across public capital markets and private financing arrangements, and includes providing financing to regulated and unregulated funds. His structured products experience extends to credit, fund and equity-linked products, repackaging platforms and other derivative and structured securities. Franz is a pre-eminent adviser to the CLO market, having developed and led the firm’s market-leading global CLO practice. Franz is also involved in the social finance and impact investing sectors, where he advises various wholesale participants and beneficiary charities and social enterprises on products and market infrastructure in those spheres. In addition to managing his legal practice, he is the global co-head of the firm’s social impact, pro bono and community investment activities, and is also a trustee and director of Access, a social investment foundation at the centre of the UK’s social finance market and where he also chairs the investment committee, and Stem4, a teenage mental health charity. Franz is listed as a leading structured finance lawyer across the legal directories.