Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has hired Elana Hahn, a structured finance and capital markets lawyer specializing in securitization, as a partner in its London Finance Group. Hahn, who joined Mayer Brown’s team on July 2, was previously part of the London office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. She advises banks and financial institutions as arrangers and represents originators and investment managers in English and international structured financings and public and private bond deals. She also advises on securitization and other structured finance deals across a wide range of asset classes involving master trust, structured investment vehicle, secured loan, true sale, conduit financing and warehousing structures. Her practice focuses primarily on CLOs, CDOs and specialized funds-related structured finance transactions, whole-business securitizations and mortgage- and other real estate- based transactions. Before Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in London, the new hire worked at Clifford Chance .
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