Robert A Villani

Robert Villani has extensive experience in structured capital markets with an emphasis on structured credit vehicles such as collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and collateralized debt obligation (CDO) transactions. He has also been involved in traditional and novel asset-backed and mortgaged-backed offerings as well in offerings of both traditional and novel structured credit products, investment funds and other financial instruments. He currently focuses on representing collateral managers in CLO transactions, including with respect to infrastructure loans, and investors in complex ABS portfolio acquisitions.

Robert's experience includes representation of collateral managers, underwriters, issuers, credit enhancers, warehouse providers and other transaction parties in securitizations and repackagings of commercial real estate loans, leveraged loans and other corporate debt instruments, marketplace originated consumer and student loans, automobile and equipment loans and leases, corporate fleet leases, trade receivables, health care receivables, and securities and asset-backed securities. Many of these transactions were among the first of their type.

Robert has also advised participants in the creation and maintenance of several investment funds and asset-backed commercial paper programs, particularly those focused on the acquisition of distressed assets, and has substantial experience working with derivatives and related products.

He is also a regular speaker at leading industry conferences, including SFA Vegas, ABS East, IMN CLO and Opal CLO. Robert is currently ranked by Chambers USA for Capital Markets: Securitization (Nationwide).

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (BS) 1986

University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (JD) 1989

Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 1990

Joined Clifford Chance as a Partner 2008