Maeve Chandler advises clients on a wide range of structured finance, securitization, and other secured financing transactions.

Ms. Chandler represents banks, issuers, underwriters, investors, placement agents, borrowers, lenders, funds, and other financial institutions on transactions involving asset-backed securities, warehouse facilities, repurchase facilities, and revolving credit facilities. She regularly works on cross-border transactions and developing new financing structures for emerging asset classes. Ms. Chandler’s experience spans both traditional and esoteric assets, including intellectual property rights, trade and other receivables, and commercial and residential solar power assets. Ms. Chandler’s practice includes advising on structured finance products in the context of Chapter 11 proceedings.

Ms. Chandler’s experience includes advising:

  • KKR, as sponsor, on the asset-backed acquisition financing of the Kobalt music catalog and other catalogs
  • Blackstone, as sponsor, on the whole-business securitization financing of record label assets
  • DailyPay, as borrower, on its securitized revolving credit facility backed by earned-pay receivables
  • Investment banks, as initial purchaser, on data center securitizations
  • The lender on a rental car fleet’s revolving credit facility
  • Numerous borrowers on trade receivables financing and other supply chain financing transactions
  • Lenders on warehouse facilities for residential and commercial solar loans
  • The seller of consumer loans under a forward-flow purchase agreement
  • The borrower under a revolving credit facility secured by loans financing the payment of legal fees by consumers
  • The issuer of blockchain-based tokens that provide the holder rights in carbon credit-generating projects financed with the proceeds of the sale of the tokens

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
  • BA in History, Political Science, and French Literature, University of Toronto

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French

Practices