William Trotman

Practice Areas

Will is a leading structured finance and securitisation lawyer focusing on structured and asset-backed finance. He has considerable experience in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), asset-backed warehouse facilities, and portfolio acquisition financings. Has acted for arrangers, lead managers, asset-backed lenders (both senior and mezzanine/junior), investors, guarantors and originators across a wide variety of financing structures and asset classes, including commercial and residential real estate

In the structured REF space, Will’s experience includes advising on the establishment of repo financing platforms by way of the “back-leverage” financing of a number of UK commercial real estate loans. Has also advised on the establishment and restructuring of a number of CMBS transactions, both cash and synthetic, acting for both lenders (senior and mezzanine) and servicers on such transactions. In addition, has advised leading investment banks on the purchase and/or financing of portfolios of residential mortgage loans, including the establishment of warehouse funding facilities to fund such portfolios, and on the subsequent RMBS re-financings of such portfolios.