Matteo Lissana
Associate
matteo.lissana@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Institutional Private Placements
- Leveraged Finance
- Fund Finance
Biography
- Matteo's practice focuses on credit solutions for funds, arrangers and lenders, including NAV facilities, CLOs, hybrid structures and cross-border fund financings.
Matteo is an associate in Akin’s Capital Solutions group, where he advises on specialist structured finance, fund-linked and securitisation transactions across EMEA and the United States.
Prior to joining Akin, Matteo worked in the securitisation team of an international law firm and completed a secondment in Milan.
Representative Work
- Structuring and negotiating a bespoke debt issuance for a litigation funding vehicle.
- Acting for a private credit fund on a $200 million hybrid credit facility.
- Leading investor-side documentation on more than $2 billion in CLO portfolio investments.
- Supporting a €300 million NAV facility for a European private credit fund, coordinating multi-jurisdictional collateral and security packages.
- Advising U.S. asset managers on UK and EU securitisation compliance for structures aiming to access European capital.
LanguagesItalian
Spanish
Italian
Spanish
EducationL.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2017
LL.B., University of Hull, 2013
L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2017
LL.B., University of Hull, 2013
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
