Leah Sanzari
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLPOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s team offers expertise in a broad range of ABS types, including esoterics and traditional. The firm advises on securitizations in the oil & gas, whole-business and automotive spaces. The addition of Orion Mountainspring and his team in November 2023 from Chapman and Cutler LLP has also strengthened its showing in credit card securitizations. With a ‘great knack for quickly understanding newer asset classes’, Robert Moyle leads the team, focusing on registered and unregistered securitization transactions for sellers, buyers and underwriters. Leah Sanzari stands out for her work on novel and esoteric assets, including tax liens and credits, diamond receivables as well as solar and wind ground leases. She also has a strong presence in relation to oil & gas securitizations. Michael Mitchell, located in Washington, DC, is a veteran consumer ABS lawyer with particular focus on credit card securitizations. Howard Goldwasser specializes in CLOs and CDOs, with insight into various jurisdictions risk retention rules. The team is based in New York, unless stated otherwise.
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‘The Orrick team are very knowledgeable on the credit card securitization asset class in particular. The team provide sound recommendations and deliver within tight turnarounds.’
‘Orrick has a solid, reliable and competent securitization team led by Mike Mitchell.’
‘Rob Moyle and Chris Min are both highly responsive to questions and are able to understand the pressure points from a bank lender point of view. They also have a great knack for quickly understanding newer asset classes, such as charge cards.’
‘Mike Mitchell is an exceptionally gifted securitization lawyer who provides sage and practical advice. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of relevant laws and regulations in the securitization space and can recall every conceivable change to laws and regulations as well as the rationale behind each one of them going back several decades.’
Key clients
- Bank of America
- Citigroup
- Invictus Capital Partners
- Morgan Stanley & Co.
- Bank of Montreal
- Rule 4(a)(2) ABS Investors (Oil and Gas Securitizations)
- American Express
- Rule 4(a)(2) ABS Investors (TV and Music Copyrights and Trademarks)
- Issuer’s Counsel for C-PACE Originators
- Nissan Auto ABS Underwriters
- Ally Financial Underwriters
- Centerline Logistics Corporation
- Rule 4(a)(2) ABS Investors (Solar Farm Ground Leases)
Work highlights
- Represented the investors in the 125 million securitization of intellectual property in the “Got Talent” franchise by Syco Entertainment.
- Represented the private placement ABS investors in connection with the rated $425 million tranche of a $750 million securitization of oil and gas well assets primarily on lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management and operated by Jonah Energy.
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Robert Moyle, Sushila Nayak