Matteo Lissana
Associate
Areas of Focus
- Structured Credit
- Institutional Private Placements
- Leveraged Finance
- Matteo is an associate in the corporate finance group and works across a variety of cross border financing, restructuring and securitization transactions.
Matteo’s experience includes representing arrangers and investment managers on a wide range of structured finance work, including European and U.S. collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transactions, as well as asset backed securitizations for various asset classes, such as insurance premiums. Prior to joining Akin, Matteo worked at another international law firm and undertook a secondment to Milan.
- Acted for arrangers on a number of refinancing transaction.
- Acted for lenders in relation to the opening of a number of warehouse financing structures, including through the issuance of profit participation notes and preference shares.
- Advised in respect of the jurisdictional migration of several public CLO transactions from Luxembourg to Ireland.
- Acted for arrangers in respect of their first European CLO issuances.
- Acted for Italian sponsors in relation to catastrophe bonds issuances providing indemnity protection against windstorms and earthquakes.
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