Tokyo Office — Securitization and Structured Finance

Orrick's Structured Finance practice is pan-Asian, with highly regarded strengths in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as emerging structured finance markets in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. (Please view Orrick's Asia-Pacific Structured Finance brochure.)

Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers 2004 ranked our pan-Asian securitization practice as a top two firm, naming it"highly competitive" and "very present and active in the market." Our global practice was described as "one of the world's leading securitzation and structured finance firms." Globally, Orrick is consistently ranked among the top 5 law firms across all asset classes—CDOs, ABS and MBS—and lawyers on our Tokyo team recently handled a securitization transaction for the world's largest multi-issue CLO.

Our local lawyers have more than ten years of sophisticated regional experience and are led by a dedicated team of 15 Partners, Of Counsel and Associates in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. Orrick's Tokyo office has established itself as one of the leading firms involved in the Japanese and ex-Japan Asian securitization market, representing underwriters and other arrangers, originators, issuers, credit enhancement providers, asset managers, servicers and investors.

Our Structured Finance team advises on the securitization of a wide variety of asset classes, including:

• Residential mortgage loans
• Credit card receivables
• Home equity loans and lines of credit
• Equipment leases
• Utility stranded cost fees
• Franchisee loans
• Installment sales contracts
• Insurance policy loans
• Healthcare receivables
• Royalty payments
• Structured note trusts and asset swaps
• Automobile loans
• Commercial mortgage loans
• Trade receivables
• Future flow receivables
• Student loans
• High-yield bonds
• Bank and corporate loans
• Mutual fund fees
• Multifamily mortgage loans
• Natural resource receivables
• Nonperforming and re-performing mortgage loans
• Tax liens and credits
• Project finance debt
• Government receivables
• Operating assets
• Synthetics and derivatives
• Leveraged and synthetic lease debt
• Interests in mortgage warehouse lines of credit
• Residual interests in defeased commercial mortgage loans
• Perpetual floating rate notes

Contact Us

For additional information regarding Orrick's Securitization and Structured Finance Practice, please contact Madoka Hashimoto (mhashimoto@orrick.com, +81 3 3224 2823) or Minako Wakabayashi (mwakabayashi@orrick.com, +81 3 3224 2926).