Georgina McLeod
Partner | New York
Georgina McLeod

Ms. McLeod is an asset-backed finance lawyer in Dechert's New York office, with experience across both the U.S. and London markets. Ms. McLeod's practice focuses on asset-backed finance and private credit, with a particular emphasis on fintech-driven transactions. She represents issuers, arrangers, trustees, asset managers and funds in U.S., European and cross-border securitization, asset-backed lending, portfolio sales, forward flows and fund finance transactions across a broad range of asset classes, with particular depth in consumer assets, including unsecured consumer, point-of-sale, buy now pay later, home improvement and credit cards.

A significant part of her practice involves working with fintech companies and fintech-focused investors on novel transactions and new issuance platforms, including some of the first U.S. securitizations of their kind in the BNPL space.

Ms. McLeod is admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales and licensed as a Legal Consultant in New York.

  • Partnerships, Banks, FinTechs, and Platforms  — Opal Group’s ABS & Fintech Specialty Finance Forum 2025, Dana Point, CA (December 9, 2025)
Services
    • University of Law, LL.B., 2011, First Class Honours
    • University of Birmingham, B.A. (Hons), 2009, First Class Honours
    • *Admitted to the practice of law in England and Wales, registered legal consultant in New York