LUKE MAIMAN focuses his practice on representing underwriters, issuers, asset managers, and investors in broadly syndicated and middle-market collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), debt fund financings, and other structured loan facilities. Luke advises clients on CLO warehouses (rated and unrated), new issue public and private market transactions, risk retention facilities and refinancings, resets, and other restructurings of CLOs. He also has experience with regulatory matters, including the Volcker Rule, U.S. risk retention rules, and federal securities laws. Prior to joining Sidley, Luke was counsel at another global law firm in the securitization practice of its international capital markets group.
Luke has been recognized by Chambers USA (Nationwide, 2021–2024) for his work in Capital Markets: Securitization: CLOs, and Legal 500 U.S. named him a “Rising Star” in 2023 for Structured Finance: Securitization. In Chambers USA 2022, clients noted he is “responsive, quick and extremely thoughtful with his drafting.”