Shawn Kodes

Shawn Kodes is the co-chair of the Asset-Backed Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the New York office.

Shawn 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.

He regularly advises on the most complex and sophisticated asset-backed transactions, often lending his experience and acumen to clients undertaking their first-ever securitization transactions. His clients have included AIG, Apollo, Atlas SP, Blackstone, Brigade, Carlyle, Credit Suisse, CFG Partners and Group 1001. He has become a go-to counsel for large asset manager clients looking to establish asset-backed financing and credit opportunities for their investors, including for the likes of Blackstone and Carlyle.

Shawn also has experience with derivatives, including credit derivatives, FX and interest rate swaps and total return swaps, both in commercial and structured finance contexts.

Before joining his prior law firm, Shawn was a vice president of a financial services company that arranged capital markets financing for global financial institutions, responsible for transaction management and execution, as a well as oversight of the company’s legal matters.

New York Law School, J.D. (cum laude, Associate Managing Editor of the New York Law School Law Review)

Syracuse University, B.A. (cum laude)