Sidley Receives Top Rankings Across U.S. Structured Finance and Securitization League Tables in 2025

Sidley has been recognized as a market leader in structured finance and securitization, earning top rankings across multiple 2025 year-end league tables. The results underscore the firm’s depth and consistency advising issuers, underwriters, sponsors and investors on a wide range of asset-backed (ABS), mortgage-backed (MBS), and commercial real estate (CRE) collateralized loan obligations (CLO) transactions.

LSEG Global Capital Markets Review 

Sidley’s Global Finance lawyers advised on more transactions than any other firm in the market, earning the following top rankings:

• #1 U.S. Straight Debt (ABS & MBS) by Deal Count – Manager & Issuer Legal Advisor Combined
• #1 U.S. Straight Debt (ABS & MBS) by Deal Count – Manager Legal Advisor
• #3 U.S. Straight Debt (ABS & MBS) by Deal Count – Issuer Legal Advisor 
• #3 Global Straight Debt (ABS & MBS) by Deal Count – Manager & Issuer Legal Advisor Combined

Commercial Mortgage Alert by Green Street News

Having advised underwriters and issuers on 91 commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) offerings and 20 CRE CLO offerings in 2025, Sidley continued to top rankings in commercial real estate finance league tables, including:

• #1 U.S. CMBS by Deal Count and Deal Value – Underwriter Counsel
• #2 U.S. CMBS by Deal Count and Deal Value – Issuer Counsel
• #1 CRE CLO by Deal Count – Underwriter & Issuer Counsel Combined
• #2 CRE CLO by Deal Count and Deal Value – Underwriter Counsel
• #2 CRE CLO by Deal Count and Deal Value – Issuer Counsel 

Asset-Backed Alert by Green Street News

Sidley advised U.S. underwriters on 154 ABS/MBS transactions totaling nearly US$100 billion in issuance in 2025, earning the firm the top spot by deal value. 

• #1 U.S. ABS/MBS by Deal Value – Underwriter Counsel 

Sidley’s Global Finance group is a destination practice for high-value, complex financings across a broad spectrum of platforms, industries, and asset types. The firm is consistently recognized as having one of the world’s leading finance practices, with more than 260 finance lawyers practicing across a wide variety of industries.