1 minute watch | June.17.2025
Romina Montellano Yoerg, a managing associate in Orrick’s structured finance group, describes working on some of the most complex and innovative deals involving esoteric assets, and shares how her unique path at Orrick keeps the work engaging.
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Romina: My first deal at Orrick was on a music deal, and it was working on the Snoop Dogg catalog. So that was pretty cool to start off with.
I didn't do the traditional OCI-type of process while I was in law school, but I still wanted to go into big law. I joined Legal Innovators and then got placed with Orrick. And it was such a smooth transition. From the day I started as an Orrick fellow, I got the same types of assignments that a regular associate would get.
Esoterics is the kind of newer asset classes or newer structures. There's a lot of novelty that comes with our deals and we get to see the same investors, which are our clients from deal to deal. The deals that I work on get more and more interesting the more I learn about the subject. As a first year, I had no idea what structure finance was and I learned about the process first and how the deals flow. And now that I'm at a mid-level, really understanding how certain pieces click together and what certain client sensitivities are, I think, just makes the work a lot more interesting.
We worked on a securitization with Stevie Nicks and Dean Martin music. We're doing Frank Sinatra right now. Those are pretty cool.