Jeffrey S. O'Connor

• Represented World Omni Financial Corp., NextGear Capital, Navistar Financial Corporation, Hyundai Capital America, Deere & Company, and other clients in securitization transactions, including:
  • Formation of dealer floorplan master trusts and the issuance of public and private term series, variable funding notes to ABCP conduits or banks and syndicated warehouse facilities
  • Creation of innovative structures, including trust-in-trusts, multi-pool trusts, variable interest trusts, pooling of residual interests and ABS backed by assets from multiple trusts
  • Forward flow and one-off whole loan sales of prime and subprime retail auto loans, auto leases and dealer floorplan receivables
  • Retail equipment and auto transactions, including public, Rule 144A, conduit, and pre-funding transactions, statistical pools, subsequent issuances and sales of subordinate classes, and repackaging securitizations of residual interests
  • Auto and equipment lease transactions, including the formation of titling trusts, public and private offerings, syndicated warehouse facilities and leveraged lease transactions
  • Preparation of registration statements on Form SF-3 complying with Reg AB II shelf eligibility requirements, risk retention, loan level data, and other complex disclosure rules
  • Underwriters and initial purchasers to Ford Motor Credit Company in multiple public and Rule 144A offerings of ABS backed by dealer floorplan receivables
  • J.P. Morgan Securities, as initial purchaser to Kubota Credit Corporation in several Rule 144A offerings of ABS backed by equipment loans

Represented:

• Diversified Energy Company in a $160 million sustainability-linked ABS of Barnett Shale assets in North Texas
• Raisa Energy LLC in the issuance of $636 million of asset-backed securities secured by over 9,000 producing oil and gas wells across six states, as part of a master trust
• Riviera Resources, an independent oil and natural gas company, in the issuance of $82 million senior secured notes secured by limited term overriding royalty interests (volumetric production payment or VPP interests) in helium
• A private company in the issuance of over $100 million of asset-backed securities secured by operated producing oil and gas wells
• A private company in the issuance of over $200 million of asset-backed securities secured by operated producing oil and gas wells
• An oil and gas company in a unique transaction involving the transfer of ownership interests in existing oil and gas wells to a special purpose vehicle and the private placement of securities backed by output from the transferred wells

Represented:

• A lender in a committed revolving credit facility financing credit card receivables utilizing a master trust structure and the issuance of a series of variable funding notes
• A lender in multiple financings of credit card receivables, including a structured warehouse facility with guaranties at both the sponsor and parent level and significant intercreditor provisions
• Acquisition of a credit card servicer and creation of a $150 million credit card securitization program, and
• Subsequent addition of bank originators to an existing securitization facility

• Awarded “US Lawyer of the Year: Debt Capital Markets” — IFLR1000
• Recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers USA for Capital Markets: Securitisation
• “An excellent technical lawyer, who provides creative solutions to structuring challenges” — The Legal 500 US for Structured Finance

• University of Southern California Gould School of Law, JD
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, MD
• Marquette University, BS

• California
• Illinois

• Co-Chair, Structured Finance Association's Equipment Committee, 2018–2020