Overview
Henry Hillind is an associate in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. His practice focuses on securitisation and structured debt transactions, acting for arrangers, lead managers, originators and servicers across a variety of structures, including public securitisation, covered bonds, private warehouse securitisations, private revolving securitisations and forward flow transactions.
Henry has experience with a range of asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans, unsecured consumer loans and non-performing loans. He also has experience acting for investment banks, mortgage lenders, specialist lenders, speciality finance companies, asset managers and private equity firms.
Clients told Legal 500 that Henry is “extremely capable” and “very clear when giving advice/providing comments,” and that he “takes a sensible approach to any difficult issues. He has an approachable manner and always makes himself available.”
Accolades
- Leading Associate, Securitisation, Legal 500
Education
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, LL.B. (Hons), 2016 (First Class)
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, B.Sc. Physics, 2016
Representations
- Hampshire Trust Bank, as seller and servicer, on its inaugural public securitisation of a £300 million portfolio of buy-to-let mortgages (Winchester No.1 plc).
- NatWest Markets, Barclays and BNPP, as arrangers and dealers, with respect to the establishment of and initial £500 million issuance from Paragon’s Covered Bond Programme. The programme is the first to have a cover pool of 100% BTL mortgage loans and won “Best Debut” at the 2025 Covered Bond Report (CBR) Awards for Excellence.
- Keystone Property Finance, as seller and servicer, on a number of private forward flow transactions, as well as the public securitisations of BTL mortgage loans through Hops Hill No.2 plc, Hops Hill No.3 plc, Hops Hill No.4 plc and Hops Hill No.5 plc.
- Lead Managers, including Lloyds, Bank of America, Barclays and Banco Santander, on the issuance of notes by:
- Lanebrook Mortgage Transaction 2021-1 plc, 2022-1 plc, 2023-1 plc and 2024-1 plc, backed by U.K. BTL mortgage loans originated by The Mortgage Lender Limited and acquired by Shawbrook Bank;
- Holbrook Mortgage Transaction 2023-1, backed by owner-occupied mortgages originated by The Mortgage Lender and acquired by Shawbrook Bank;
- Ealbrook Mortgage Transaction 2022-1, 2024-1 and 2025-1, backed by owner-occupied (including help-to-buy) and buy-to-let loans originated by Bluestone Mortgages Limited and acquired by Shawbrook Bank; and
- Aldbrook Mortgage Transaction 2025-1, backed by owner-occupied and buy-to-let loans originated by The Mortgage Lender and acquired by Shawbrook Bank.
- Selina Finance, as originator, seller and servicer, with respect to:
- forward flow transactions with Waterfall Asset Management and other lenders; and
- Odyssey Funding plc and its inaugural public securitisation of a £250 million portfolio of second charge owner-occupied fixed rate, variable rate and home equity line of credit (HELOC) residential mortgage loans, the first of its kind in the European market.
- MT Finance, as originator and servicer, on a forward flow transaction relating to BTL mortgages, and as legal title holder and servicer on the public securitisations of BTL mortgages Pierpont 2024-1 and Pierpont 2025-1.
- BoFA Securities, BNP Paribas Lloyds and Santander, as joint lead managers, on the Oak No.5 PLC and Oak No.4 PLC public securitisations of prime residential owner-occupied mortgages originated by Aldermore Bank PLC to borrowers secured on properties in England and Wales.
- Paragon Bank plc and Paragon Mortgage (2010) Limited, as sellers and legal title holders, and Paragon Mortgages (No.29) PLC, as issuer, in a securitisation of buy-to-let mortgages originated by the sellers. The deal was arranged by Santander Corporate & Investment Bank and BofA Securities.
- UK Fintech Lendable, as originator, on multiple securitisations of credit card and consumer loan receivables.
Glenhawk Financial Services, as originator and servicer, on a number of securitisations of bridging loans to support further lending and growth of Glenhawk, a fast-growing challenger lender in the U.K. - Octopus Electric Vehicles, as originator, on a £550 million debt securitisation facility from Lloyds Bank to fund electric vehicles, accelerating total EV funding to £1.2 billion. The transaction was named “Private Securitisation of the Year” at the 2024 GlobalCapital European Securitisation Awards.
- MotoNovo Finance, on its private warehouse securitisations of automotive HP and PCP agreements.
*Matters may have been handled prior to joining Paul Hastings.