Stephen Barclay is a structured finance specialist, advising key market participants on collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transactions, CLO warehouses, fund financings, risk retention financings, repackagings, originator establishments, and originator financings.

Stephen has extensive experience advising arrangers, managers, and originators on the legal, commercial, and regulatory aspects of broadly syndicated CLO transactions, including both actively managed and static transactions, resets, refinancings, and reissues.

He boasts a sophisticated understanding of the financing structures utilized in the CLO market, including on warehouses and risk retention financings, as well as on middle-market ABL transactions and repackagings.

Stephen also has a breadth of experience advising on the establishment and management of risk retention vehicles.

An expert on the EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Framework, Stephen regularly advises on risk retention, transparency, and due diligence requirements.

Stephen also has a strong commitment to pro bono, advising Access – The Foundation for Social Investment on a number of bespoke finance arrangements in the social finance sector.

Stephen’s representative clients include:

  • Bank of America*
  • Barclays
  • BNP Paribas*
  • Chenavari*
  • Citi
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Investcorp*
  • Jefferies
  • JP Morgan
  • Napier Park
  • NatWest Markets*
  • Natixis
  • Polus*
  • Santander*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • Scotland (Solicitor)

Education

  • Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Strathclyde, 2015
  • Law with German Legal Studies, University of Glasgow, 2014
  • Erasmus Programme in Civil Law & Public Law, Free University of Berlin, 2013