Dasha Sobornova

Partner

Areas of Focus

Dasha Sobornova

Partner

dasha.sobornova@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Represents arrangers, investment managers, investors (including collateralised loan obligation (CLO) lenders) and corporate services providers in relation to CLO issuances and other complex finance transactions.
  • Advises on securitisations, warehouse financing arrangements and follow-on refinancing and “reset” transactions throughout Europe.
  • Extensive experience with EU Securitisation Regulation and UK Securitisation Regulation in the context of common and bespoke securitisation structures.
  • Works with clients across the direct lending and portfolio finance markets in obtaining and deploying financing.

Dasha advises arrangers, investment managers, investors (including CLO lenders) and corporate services providers on a range of structured finance work, with a particular focus on CLO transactions. She has an extensive knowledge of the EU Securitisation Regulation and the UK Securitisation Regulation, and acts as a transactional regulatory advisor in the context of all types of securitisation structures.

Dasha has advised on a variety of CLO, residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), derivative and credit funds transactions at prior firms. She also completed a secondment at a leading US bank in London, assisting with the establishment of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)-related internal policies and procedures. 

Dasha worked on a number of restructurings of the pre-crisis RMBS transactions as well as advised corporate services providers in relation to the replacement of downgraded agent banks and defaulted hedge providers and structured replacement hedge transactions.

Representative Work
  • Advised arrangers and investment managers on a number of Irish-listed CLOs involving Irish and Dutch issuers.*
  • Advised corporate services providers in relation to CLO terminations.*
  • Advised corporate services providers in relation to various RMBS refinancings and new issue RMBS transactions.*
  • Advised market participants on EMIR and EU Securitisation Regulation interpretation and implementation.*

    *Matters handled prior to joining Akin Gump.

Education
  • L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, with distinction, 2006

  • GDL, BPP University Law School, England, 2005

  • B.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004

Bar Admissions
  • Solicitor, England and Wales

Recognitions
  • The Legal 500 UK, Securitisation, 2021-2024, Structured Products and Securitisation, 2020.
Speeches and Publications
  • Structured Finance: What to Expect in 2022, February 2022.
  • Global ABS Virtual 2020, September 2020.
  • CLO Virtual Market Outlook 2020, June 2020.
  • Securitization – What to Expect in 2020, January 2020.
  • Global ABS 2019, June 2019.

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