Shehram Khattak

• Advised facility and security agents across a variety of loans and loan financings, including commercial real estate loans, acquisition financings, and unsecured financings.
• Advised major financial institutions in their capacity as the trustee and other agency roles in the administration and exercise of remedies in defaulted transactions across a wide range of asset classes, including the liquidation of collateral and the exercise of discretion.
• Advised major financial institutions as the trustee in disputes and litigation involving the administration of previously closed transactions.
• Advised the security trustee and cash manager in a £140m variable funding note regarding loans originating from a P2P lending platform.
• Advised a public fund as mezzanine lender and high-yield payment-in-kind noteholder on a leveraged financing deal.
• Advised an originator-issuer P2P lending platform in the securitization of a portfolio of £50m unsecured consumer loans.
• Advised on a number of end-to-end digitization projects advising on contracts, capability statements, and terms and conditions of proposed vendors.
• Advised global financial institutions on numerous end-to-end digitization projects, including process reengineering and product launches involving APIs, data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, market infrastructure and ecosystems, distributed ledger technology, and tokenization.

Shehram Khattak focuses on advising corporate trust, agent, and issuer clients across a broad spectrum of cross-border and domestic transactions. These transactions include commercial mortgage-backed securities and other securitizations, warehouse financings, CLOs, CDOs, medium term note programs, other debt capital markets issuances, note repackagings, direct debt, and fund services.

Shehram advises corporate trust and agency institutions when acting in capacities such as note and security trustees, cash managers, custodians, paying agents, collateral administrators, and portfolio and fund administrators in transactions and during default administrations, restructurings, exercises of discretion and other post-closing matters.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Shehram served as legal counsel at a leading global bank, a consultant at a multinational technology solutions firm, and a finance associate at a global top 50 law firm.

Bar Admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• College of Law – London (L.P.C., 2010)
• King's College London (LL.B., 2009)