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Hatfield Philips International is a servicer of primarily European CMBS transactions with hundreds of securitised, mortgage-backed bonds amounting to a high two figure billion euro sum. Deputy General Counsel Europe, Annette Benner ‘shapes, supervises and drives forward highly innovative proceedings’, say observers, ‘both in terms of commercial progress and court proceedings, ranging from Federal Court proceedings to cross-border insolvency proceedings’. Benner plays an active role in implementing mortgage-backed financings which contain substantial legal elements that ‘have been ruled upon for the first time by a higher court and are landmark cases not only for the CMBS sector but for the real estate financing sector as a whole’. Benner’s work is described as ‘cutting edge, every day, again and again’ and peers count her among the ‘absolute elite of restructuring and real estate sector corporate counsel’.