Partner

Ronan Mellon

Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Derivatives

“very responsive, experienced and commercial”
UK Legal 500

Overview

Ronan Mellon concentrates on structured finance, securitisation and collateralized loan obligations. His extensive experience covers a broad range of asset classes including SME loans, trade receivables, handsets receivables, credit cards receivables, project loans and development loans.

He also has broad project finance experience covering project bond/note issuances, private placements and hybrid (bond/note/fixed rate loan/floating rate loan) structures on both wrapped and unwrapped transactions. 

Experience

  • Advising Dutch telecommunications companies in their roles as sellers, servicers and retention holders in respect of a portfolio of Dutch handset receivables. 
  • Advising a leading UK platform lender as seller, servicer and subordinated lender in respect of a UK SME loan warehouse transaction.
  • Advising a number of leading UK platform lenders on their securitisations of  portfolios of trade receivables and SME loans guaranteed under the Recovery Loan Scheme and the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.*
  • Advising UK, US and European CLO arrangers on the establishment and execution of CLO warehouses and CLOs.*
  • Advising UK and European CLO managers on the establishment of permanent warehouses, CLO warehouses , CLOs and retention financing arrangements.*
  • Advising a number of US CLO managers on the use of an originator to satisfy European risk retention requirements for US CLO warehouses and US CLOs.*

Recognition

  • Listed as a key lawyer for Securitisation and Power - Legal 500

Admissions

  • England and Wales
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