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Mr Rory O’Connor
Work Department
Global Finance
Position
Associate
Career
Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland with a leading Dublin law firm in January 2015, Rory O’Connor has broad private practice and in-house experience with respect to corporate, finance and banking matters. Mr. O’Connor is an associate in the global finance team of Dechert’s London office. He advises on a variety of securitization, structured finance and regulatory matters, with a focus on CLOs.
In addition to his private practice experience acting predominantly for arrangers and managers in the European CLO market, Mr. O’Connor has extensive U.S. market experience as issuer counsel on a wide variety of U.S. securitizations and CLOs and is a Cayman Islands qualified attorney.
From an in-house perspective, Mr. O’Connor has completed secondments as a structurer on the European CLO desk of a U.S. investment bank and as a securities and derivatives counsel on the European CLO desk of a European investment bank.
Education
- National University of Ireland, Galway, Bachelor of Civil Law, 2009
- Erasmus University Rotterdam, LL.M., Commercial Law, 2012
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Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+