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Experience
Elana Hahn advises financial institutions as lenders and structurers/arrangers and represents investors, originators and investment managers in UK and international financings. She principally advises on fund and structured debt deals across a wide range of asset classes (including master trust, structured investment vehicle, secured loan, true sale, conduit financing, and warehousing structures).
Elana’s practice covers funds and their financing, insurance-linked securities, CDOs, CLOs, as well as trade receivables structured financing, whole-business securitisations, and mortgage- and other real estate-based structured debt deals. Recent work has included debt and fund re-financings, structured debt restructurings and un-winds, fund capital call subscription facilities, whole-loan portfolio trades, advising investors and investment managers on their structured debt positions, advising investment managers, financial services providers and financial institutions on M&A-related business rationalisation, and advising financial institutions on transactions involving government liquidity programmes.
Elana became "a market phenomenon". Clients praise her "consistent high quality of work in complex transactions" (Legal 500, 2009). She was cited as a “Leading Individual” in Chambers UK 2008 (under Capital Markets - Structured Finance), which observed that she is “an accessible, extremely hard-working and hands-on partner.” She is fluent in both Russian and French.
Education
University of Toronto, JD • Princeton University, AB, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Certificate in Russian Studies and Russian Culture
Admitted
- Ontario, Canada, Barrister and Solicitor
- England and Wales
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