Tara Castillo

Tara represents clients in warehouse finance, structured finance, specialty finance, securitizations, and other asset-backed transactions. Tara represents borrowers, issuers, lenders, placement agents, underwriters, and other industry participants across a broad spectrum of asset classes, including auto loans and leases, consumer loans, credit card receivables, elective medical health receivables, equipment loans, home improvement loans, lease-to-own receivables, merchant cash advance loans, solar loans, and timeshare receivables. Tara has extensive experience representing fintech platforms with bank partnerships and forward flow arrangements. She also advises on the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions.

Co-chair, firm’s Finance Group; co-chair, Auto Finance and Consumer Finance teams. Guest lecturer, Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad de Chile law schools in Santiago, Chile, on securitization and structured finance.

D.C. Diversity Committee for the firm’s Washington, D.C. office; Structured Finance Association Women in Securitization Cabinet.

Co-author of the chapters Securitization Readiness Considerations for Consumer Finance Companies, Timeshare Loan Securitizations, and Auto Loan Securitization in the treatise “Securitization: Legal and Regulatory Issues.”