Julian Craughan

An investment bank and Deutsche Bank on a €640m ABS-transaction backed by data centres, the first securitisation of data centre assets in Continental Europe

A UK investment bank on its landmark £250m asset-backed debt facility to Atrato Onsite Energy for the UK’s first Commercial and Industrial solar backed warehouse securitisation

Credit Agricole CIB on the establishment of a £100m private securitisation warehouse facility for Sunsave, the UK’s first FCA-authorised solar subscription provider

ENRA Specialist Finance on numerous warehouse financings in relation to bridging, buy-to-let, owner occupied and development finance loans, forward flow transactions and seven RMBS transactions 

Waterfall Asset Management on a forward flow and back book sale of UK equity release mortgage (ERM) loans through an SPV

BNP Paribas, Bank of America and Citi on a €500m securitisation backed by heavy equipment leases and the €1.6bn warehouse securitisation used to finance the acquisition of Beequip by Apollo

Waterfall Asset Management on SBOLT 2023-1, 2024-1 and 2025-1 STS eligible public take-out securitisations and related private warehouses of SME loans originated under the Funding Circle platform. 

Metro Bank PLC on the sale of an approximately £584m unsecured consumer credit loan portfolio.

Advising an investment bank on a novel and inaugural securitisation of Spanish solar loan, lease and power purchase agreement receivables

Advising Merrill Lynch International, as arranger and the JLMs on securitisations of residential mortgages originated through Finance Ireland RMBS No1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Advising Citi, as arranger, and the JLMs on all securitisations to-date of UK automotive receivables originated by Oodle Finance

Acting for Citi, as arranger, on a Greek auto lease securitisation originated by a Greek franchisee of Avis.

The investor, as junior lender, on a £250m facility backed by SME loans guaranteed by the U.K. government under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)

A captive finance company on the establishment of a group securitisation programme for UK operating lease and PCP/HP receivables

The Department for Education on securitisations of £3.7bn and £3.8bn portfolios of income contingent repayment student loans

Volkswagen Financial Services on Driver UK Master, its £10bn securitisation programme of UK automotive receivables through Driver UK Master S.A.

A finance company on the private securitisation of its portfolio of dealer floorplan loans in the UK

Citi, as arranger, and the JLMs on Azure Finance No. 2 plc involving the placement of the full capital stack to investors