Overview
Jason Brooks is a partner in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises investment banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of structured finance and derivatives products.
His practice includes asset-based finance transactions, such as margin lending, receivables and fund back-leverage structures, as well as risk transfer transactions, including capital relief trades, credit derivatives and risk participation agreements.
Jason advises on a variety of formats to meet client needs, including loan agreements, bonds, derivatives, repo and stock lending transactions. His experience spans a range of underlying asset classes, including credit, equities, rates and commodities.
He also advises clients on the impact of various regulations relating to derivatives and structured finance.
Accolades
- Leading Individual, Derivatives and Structured Products, Legal 500 UK
Education
- University of Toronto, J.D.
Representations
- A number of clients on risk transfer arrangements, including risk participations, credit linked notes and CDSs, and, additionally, several insurance companies and funds on investments into credit-linked note structures and related CDS hedging.
- A number of investors and arrangers in respect of synthetic securitization structures, including CLN and derivatives structures.
- Issuers on the establishment and update of EU-listed structured note programs and repackaging programs; advised both issuers and investors in relation to numerous issuances and listings of structured notes, including equity-linked notes, credit-linked notes, index-linked notes and other bespoke structures.
- Both investors and originators on securitizations of fintech loans, including a $100 million Nigerian fintech securitization.
- A Spanish asset manager on two €100 million revolving credit facilities in respect of a credit fund investing in corporate loans.
- An investment firm in respect of several collateralized collar transactions in respect of more than €1billion of EU-listed shares.
- Various total return swaps, including a financing of an energy company through convertible loan notes funded through a total return swap.
- Various credit-linked deposit arrangements, including self-referencing reciprocal or cross-deposit extinguisher arrangements.
- Various commodities-linked arrangements, including asset-backed bullion programs, oil price hedging and commodity repo transactions.
- Major financial institutions on various regulatory projects and industry-wide initiatives, including EMIR compliance, Brexit and IBOR transition.
- A number of investment banks and private equity firms on deal contingent hedging on a number of US and European M&A transactions.
- A number of investment banks on structured repurchase and stock lending transactions, including leverage financing for CLO investment vehicle, and repos over portfolios of loans.
- Hedge providers on various securitization structures including RMBS, CMBS, CLOs and whole business securitizations.