- Represented a publicly traded timeshare company in its Rule 144A and Reg S securitization program backed by timeshare loans totaling approximately $3.5 billion in rated note issuances.
- Represented a leading global timeshare operator in connection with a $850 million warehouse facility secured by timeshare loans.
- Represented a timeshare company in connection with its $70 million credit facility secured by timeshare loans.
- Structured finance counsel to a publicly traded acquiror in the negotiation of the timeshare receivables financing and securitization aspects of an acquisition with a transaction value of approximately $117 million.
- Structured finance counsel to a publicly traded acquiror in the negotiation of the timeshare receivables financing and securitization aspects of an acquisition with a transaction value of approximately $1.5 billion.
- Structured finance counsel to a publicly traded acquiror in the negotiation of the timeshare receivables financing and securitization aspects of an acquisition resulting in the largest upper-upscale and luxury timeshare operator, with a transaction value of approximately $3 billion. The transaction was named the largest hospitality M&A deal of 2021 by Dealogic.
- Represented investors in several sub-prime auto loan securitizations in connection with the sponsor’s bankruptcy.
- Represented a consumer finance company in its revolving $75 million credit facility secured by personal consumer loans.
- Represented banks and private credit companies in sales of participations and sub-participations related to financings secured by a broad spectrum of assets.
- Represented asset managers and various funds in purchases of participations related to financings secured by a broad spectrum of assets.
Partner,
- Phone: +1 212 210 9555
- Email: anna.french@alston.com
Clients look to Anna for counsel on securitization and financing of a wide range of asset classes within the structured finance market.
- Represented investors in securitizations and lenders in various types of secured lending arrangements collateralized by single family rentals, early buyout loans, manufactured housing, and other types of financial assets.
- Represented the structuring agent and initial purchaser in the creation of a master trust structure for the financing of merchant cash advances and small business loans.
- Represented structuring agents, placements agents and initial purchasers in the creation of numerous master trust structures for the financing of Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights and the related excess spread, and the issuance of variable funding notes and term notes up to $1 billion each.
- Represented numerous lenders in multiple warehouse lines of credit related to mortgage assets.
- Represented a fintech company in the restructuring and payoff of existing credit lines.
- Represented mortgage servicers and structuring advisors and underwriters in multiple securitizations of servicing advance receivables.
- Represented a structuring agent and initial purchaser in a securitization of reverse mortgages.
- Represented lenders and borrowers in revolving asset-based loan agreements related to marketplace consumer loans and other financial assets.
- Represented a joint-venture direct-lending vehicle in the financing of a portfolio of middle-market company loans of $6 billion.
- Counsel to a major nationally recognized statistical rating organization advising on legal compliance with the Dodd–Frank Act.
Anna French’s clients include public and private borrowers, originators, issuers, sponsors, lenders, underwriters, placement agents, investors, servicers, participation sellers and buyers, rating agencies, and other industry participants. Anna has structured and negotiated securitization transactions, warehouse lines of credit, participation arrangements, conduit financing arrangements, and other types of structured and secured lending transactions across a broad spectrum of asset classes, including timeshare loans, personal consumer loans, equipment loans and leases, merchant cash advances, manufactured housing, agency and private-label residential mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights, and servicing advance receivables. She also advises on the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcies.
Anna is nationally recognized in Chambers USA in Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® recognized Anna in the area of Banking and Finance Law for 2021–2024. She is also part of the Structured Finance Association’s Women in Securitization Rising Star Program.
Before joining the firm, Anna practiced law in the New York office of another international law firm.
Languages
- Russian
Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- Washington University in St. Louis (J.D., 2014)
- Columbia University (B.A., 2007)
Memberships
- Alston & Bird Finance Group, Practice Group Diversity Partner
- Alston & Bird New York Women’s Initiative, co-chair
- Alston & Bird Women’s Initiative Steering Committee
- Alston & Bird’s Associates Committee
- Structured Finance Association, Women in Securitization Rising Star Program
- Structured Finance Association, Esoteric Market Committee