Dechert LLP

Finance & Real Estate

Christopher Desmond has experience in a broad range of structured and leveraged finance transaction types, and primarily focuses on representing asset managers, sponsors and issuers in collateralized loan obligation ("CLO") transactions, as well as managers and borrowers in a variety of fund financing structures, including subscription credit facilities and asset-backed leveraged loan warehouses. He has represented issuers, originators, agent banks and underwriters in connection with asset-backed and residential mortgage securitizations and commercial paper conduits, as well as lenders and borrowers in cash-flow and asset-based loan facilities. He has also represented counterparties to numerous derivative transactions, including credit, currency and commodity derivatives.

Stanford University, B.A., 2002; Stanford University, M.A., 2003; New York University, J.D., 2006