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About
Provided by Rupert Wall
Practice Areas
RUPERT WALL is the head of Sidley’s Global Finance group in Europe.
Rupert has over 20 years’ experience in structured finance transactions involving a diverse range of asset classes (including trade, consumer and other secured and unsecured receivables; auto, student, aircraft, shipping, corporate, mid-market/direct lending and other loans and leases; vehicle rental fleets and residential and commercial mortgage loans), encompassing a wide range of public and private financing structures (including RMBS, CMBS, ABCP conduits, covered bonds, whole-business securitisations and CLO/CBO/CDOs, as well as more esoteric or synthetic structures).
Rupert advises fund sponsors, arrangers, originators, investment managers and investors on all aspects of securitisation, structured finance, asset-backed lending, fund financing, structured products and derivatives. He also advises counterparties in relation to general capital markets issuances, leveraged finance transactions and portfolio transactions (both performing and distressed/non-performing).
Publications
Rupert is also the author of several academic and commercial securitisation guides, including the England and Wales chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Securitisation every year since 2012 (for which he has been the global contributing editor since 2020) and various Practical Law (PLC) guides and articles on securitisation (including the England and Wales chapter of the “Q&A Guide to Structured Finance and Securitisation”, the “CLO: Overview” Practice Note, as well as the “Securitisation: regulatory framework and reforms” Practice Note).
Chambers Review
UK
Rupert Wall is the European head of Sidley Austin's global finance group. Expert in repacks, structured notes and regulatory capital, his practice extends to liability management and pan-European debt instruments.
Rupert Wall is European head of Sidley Austin's global finance group. He attracts praise for his regulatory and transactional securitisation capabilities. His practice incorporates the full range of asset classes, from ABS to mortgage-backed transactions.
Rupert Wall is European head of Sidley Austin's global finance group. He attracts praise for his regulatory and transactional securitisation capabilities. His practice incorporates the full range of asset classes, from ABS to mortgage-backed transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rupert has an encyclopedic view and is able to explain his thought process eloquently."
"Rupert is very pleasant to work with and service-oriented."
"Rupert is good at distilling very complex material in easily understandable ways."
"Rupert is technically astute and highly collaborative."
"Rupert is super available, responsive and good at negotiating."
"Rupert is good at distilling very complex material in easily understandable ways."
"Rupert is knowledgeable, commercial and supportive when the need arises."
"Rupert has an encyclopedic view and is able to explain his thought process eloquently."
"Rupert is very pleasant to work with and service-oriented."
"Rupert is good at distilling very complex material in easily understandable ways."
"Rupert is technically astute and highly collaborative."
"Rupert is super available, responsive and good at negotiating."
"Rupert is good at distilling very complex material in easily understandable ways."
"Rupert is knowledgeable, commercial and supportive when the need arises."