Pedro Nunes

pedro.nunes@lw.com

+44.20.7710.4698

Profile

Pedro Nunes is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins.

Pedro advises banks, asset managers, pension funds, and insurers, as well as originators and sponsors, on a broad range of structured finance transactions across various performing and non-performing asset classes, including residential and commercial mortgages, trade receivables, auto loans, consumer loans, and esoteric assets.

Pedro's practice focuses on matters involving:

Residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS)
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)
Commercial real estate (CRE) warehouse and back-leverage transactions
Cross-border debt portfolio acquisitions via private and public securitizations

Experience

Pedro’s representative experience includes advising:

Bank clients on single- and multi-loan European CMBS transactions across a range of countries and sectors, including a Blackstone-sponsored £1.54 billion CMBS (Caister Finance DAC)*
Clients on CRE back-leverage transactions across Europe*
Private equity and bank clients on bids for performing and non-performing portfolios of residential mortgages, consumer loans, and auto loans in various jurisdictions, including Spain, Greece, Portugal, and the UK, and financing of those portfolios via public and private securitizations*
Sistema.bio on the structuring of a carbon financing vehicle designed to scale access to biodigesters that convert farm waste into renewable biogas energy and organic fertilizer*
Certificateholders on the subscription of Sukuk to fund the acquisition of a portfolio of Shariah-compliant home purchase plans in relation to properties in the UK*
A Portuguese football club on a sale of a portfolio of TV broadcasting receivables via a private securitization*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

England and Wales (Solicitor)
Portugal (Advogado)

Education

LLM in International Financial Law, King's College, University of London
MA, Catholic University of Portugal, Faculty of Law
Law Degree, University of Porto, Faculty of Law

Languages Spoken

English
Portuguese