Dasha Sobornova
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Special Situations
- Structured Credit
- Private Credit
- Private Capital
- 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.
- 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.
List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.
EducationL.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
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 AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
- The Legal 500 UK, Securitisation, 2021-2024; Structured Products and Securitisation, 2020.
- 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.