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About
Provided by Shawn Kodes
Practice Areas
Shawn Kodes is a partner and Co-Chair of the Asset-Backed Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the New York office.
Kodes advises issuers, sponsors, banks, underwriters, investors, asset managers, purchasers, insurers and rating agencies in all aspects of asset backed finance transactions, both in the United States and abroad. He has experience in the acquisition, sale and securitization of a broad range of asset types, including auto loans and leases, equipment loans and leases, rental car fleets, credit card receivables, U.S. and foreign trade receivables, student loans, unsecured consumer loans, music royalties, pharmaceutical royalties, manufactured homes, agricultural loans, commercial loans, high yield bonds, healthcare receivables, insurance broker commissions, corporate loans, and residual interests in securitizations. He has participated in structuring commercial paper conduits, master trusts, grantor trusts and owner trusts, as well as other forms of domestic and offshore special purpose vehicles.
Personal
Syracuse University (B.A., cum laude, 2004); New York Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2007).