Dentons is proud to announce that Law360 has named our US Capital Markets practice the 2023 Structured Finance Practice Group of the Year for the third year in a row. This prestigious award highlights the top legal practices that helped guide clients in record-breaking, complex and innovative matters in 2023.

Our US Capital Markets team continues to distinguish itself through the support of our A-list roster of clients, who have entrusted our lawyers with their most sophisticated, complex and first-of-a-kind structured finance transactions for more than 30 years. As recognized by Law360, those achievements over the past year have included:

• A first-of-its kind multibillion dollar notes issuance by FDIC 2023-G1 Trust and sale to the US Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank in connection with the FDIC’s receivership of First Republic Bank, proceeds used to help pay down debt and reduce costs of the receivership.
• Multiple multibillion dollar repurchase facilities to finance the acquisition of a global bank’s securitized products business by a private equity firm.
• Two of the first Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac true excess IO securitizations completed since the financial crisis.
• The first rated securitization of home equity investment agreements, which provide an alternative to traditional home mortgage financing and represent a rapidly expanding asset class, with total addressable market in the trillions of US dollars based on consumer home equity positions.
• A rated securitization backed by home equity lines of credit, one of the fastest growing asset classes in the mortgage industry

With more than 70 structured finance lawyers, Dentons has stood at the forefront of structured finance for three decades. In 2023, we advised on more than 110 asset-backed transactions in the US, totaling more than US$33.7 billion. Dentons leads in the finance and securitization of real estate assets, including triple net-lease commercial real estate, single family rental properties, mortgage servicing rights and residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities. We are the “go-to” firm for triple-net lease securitizations, and our prowess extends to emerging areas such as home equity investment contracts and investor loans. In addition, Dentons is one of a very small, select group of law firms with a team dedicated solely to agency and trust services providers. Dentons is also one of a few law firms that can call on a “highly regarded” dedicated consumer finance regulatory team with a long-standing and proven track record in the US market.

We are called upon to help clients navigate first-of-its-kind transactions and novel asset classes—in the past year advising on structured finance transactions involving student and consumer loans, medical lien receivables, litigation funding receivables, trade receivables, timeshare, fiber, data center and whole business assets.