Rupert Wall

Practice Areas

RUPERT WALL is the head of Sidley’s Global Finance group in Europe.

Rupert has over 20 years’ experience in structured finance transactions involving a diverse range of asset classes (including trade, consumer and other secured and unsecured receivables; auto, student, aircraft, shipping, corporate, mid-market/direct lending and other loans and leases; vehicle rental fleets and residential and commercial mortgage loans), encompassing a wide range of public and private financing structures (including RMBS, CMBS, ABCP conduits, covered bonds, whole-business securitisations and CLO/CBO/CDOs, as well as more esoteric or synthetic structures).

Rupert advises fund sponsors, arrangers, originators, investment managers and investors on all aspects of securitisation, structured finance, asset-backed lending, fund financing, structured products and derivatives. He also advises counterparties in relation to general capital markets issuances, leveraged finance transactions and portfolio transactions (both performing and distressed/non-performing).

Publications

Rupert is also the author of several academic and commercial securitisation guides, including the England and Wales chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Securitisation every year since 2012 (for which he has been the global contributing editor since 2020) and various Practical Law (PLC) guides and articles on securitisation (including the England and Wales chapter of the “Q&A Guide to Structured Finance and Securitisation”, the “CLO: Overview” Practice Note, as well as the “Securitisation: regulatory framework and reforms” Practice Note).