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Biography

BECKY O’BRIEN advises on structured finance transactions, with a focus on CLOs and private credit, including rated feeder transactions and CFOs. She also has extensive experience across securitization transactions involving a wide range of asset classes, as well as derivatives, and regularly counsels clients on cross-border regulatory matters, including the U.S. risk retention rules, the Volcker Rule, the Investment Advisers Act, NAIC considerations, and EU and UK securitization regulations.

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Nuveen Asset Management as portfolio manager across its Symphony CLO platform.
  • UBS Asset Management (fka Credit Suisse Asset Management) as portfolio manager across the Madison Park Funding, One Eleven Funding, and Madison Park Euro Funding CLO platforms.
  • Scotiabank as arranger and structurer on a wide variety of CLO, CFO, rated feeder, and ABL transactions.
  • RREEF/DWS group as portfolio manager in connection with the RIN infrastructure CLO platform.
  • International Finance Corporation on its emerging markets CLO platform.
  • Nuveen Asset Management on a wide variety of rated feeder and funds transactions across CPACE and energy and infrastructure credit.
  • Coller Capital as manager in connection with its CFO transactions in relation to private equity and private credit assets.
  • JP Morgan Alternative Asset Management on the establishment of a rated feeder into a credit fund.
  • Atalaya as manager in connection with a rated feeder into one of its managed funds.
  • Oceanview Insurance in connection with two CFO transactions.
  • Brigade Capital Management as portfolio manager on its Battalion CLO platform.
  • New York Life Investment Management as portfolio manager on its Flatiron CLO platform.
  • Natixis as structurer and placement agent on a cross border CFO transaction.
  • Citi as AAA lender in CLO transactions.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.

Community Involvement

Membership & Activities

  • Women in Securitization, Member

Pro Bono

  • Safe Passage
  • Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
  • My Sisters’ Place
 

Credentials

Admissions & Certifications
  • District of Columbia
  • New York
  • England and Wales (Solicitor)
Education
  • Fordham University School of Law, LL.M., 2016
  • University of Oxford, M.A., 2013
  • BPP University Law School, Graduate Diploma, 2009
  • University of Oxford, B.A., 2008

Capabilities