Ed Comber

ed.comber@lw.com

+1.212.906.1793

Profile

Ed Comber advises clients on a broad range of structured finance, securitization, and other secured financing transactions.

Ed draws on extensive experience across a broad range of asset classes to represent sponsors, issuers, borrowers, banks, underwriters, placement agents, investors, lenders, funds, and other financial institutions in a broad range transactions. In particular, he works on the financing of a range of traditional and esoteric asset-backed securities, including:

Music catalogs
Triple net lease assets
Rental car fleets
Oil and gas assets
Shipping containers
Consumer credit card receivables
A variety of trade receivables

He collaborates with clients and their counterparties to structure effective solutions for specific asset classes. In particular, he has been closely involved in pioneering music catalog portfolio securitization with other members of Latham's Structured Finance Practice.

Ed maintains an active pro bono practice and has represented clients in asylum matters and matters involving under-resourced small businesses.

Experience

Ed’s experience includes advising:

Blackstone, as sponsor, on:
- A Rule 144A securitization of music catalogs acquired in conjunction with Hipgnosis Song Management
- The whole-business securitization of a performing rights organization
Various underwriters and issuers on the securitization of various triple net lease real estate assets
Investment banks, as lenders or initial purchasers, on all of Hertz’s rental car fleet securitizations
The lenders and borrowers under variable funding note financings provided to various rental car companies
SeaCube on establishing, and various medium term note issuances under, a master trust securitization of shipping container assets
The investors on a Rule 144A securitization of consumer credit card receivables
The borrower under a season-and-sell financing structure collateralized by consumer credit card receivables
Various placement agents and issuers on the securitization of oil and gas assets and related private placements of asset-backed notes
Various borrowers and lenders under warehouse lending arrangements for a wide range of asset classes
Various borrowers on trade receivables financings