Rory O’Connor

Rory O’Connor, a senior associate in Dechert’s global finance practice, qualified as a solicitor in Ireland with a leading Dublin law firm in January 2015, is England and Wales qualified and is also a Cayman Islands qualified attorney.

He advises on a variety of banking, corporate, securitization, structured finance and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on CLOs.

He regularly represents managers, arrangers and investors in respect of European CLO transactions and their related warehouse financing facilities and additionally has extensive U.S. CLO market experience as issuer counsel on a wide variety of U.S. securitizations and CLOs.Mr. O’Connor has extensive experience in both private practice and in house environments.

Mr. O’Connor’s secondments as a CLO structurer on the European CLO desk of a U.S. investment bank and as a securities and derivatives counsel on the European CLO desk of a European investment bank have enhanced his experience in the CLO field.

Mr. O’Connor also frequently advises on regulatory issues connected with the CLO and securitisation market, with a particular focus on risk retention structuring, transparency reporting and ESG matters.

Mr. O’Connor is recommended by The Legal 500 UK for securitization.