IAN DRILON focuses his practice on representing underwriters, issuers, asset managers, and investors in transactions involving broadly syndicated and middle-market collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), including CLO warehouses (rated and unrated), new issue public and private market transactions, and refinancings, resets, and other restructurings of CLOs. He also has experience in structured finance products involving a variety of asset classes, such as covered bonds, auto loans and leases, mortgages, trade finance, and data centers. In addition, Ian advises clients with respect to regulatory matters, including the Volcker Rule, U.S. risk retention rules, and federal securities laws.
Prior to joining Sidley, Ian was an associate at another global law firm in the securitization practice of its international capital markets group. Before practicing law in the United States, Ian was an associate in a large full-service law firm in the Philippines and also taught part-time as an adjunct professor at Ateneo de Manila University Law School and Far Eastern University Institute of Law.
Ian is fluent in Filipino.