Dechert added counsel Melissa Wollis and associates Erin Hood and Taylor Muller to Dechert’s global finance group as part of the firm’s market-leading CLO team in New York. They follow the recent addition of partner Jon Burke, who rejoined the firm in October.
“This has been a truly great year for our team. First, Jon came back home to Dechert, and now Melissa, Erin and Taylor have joined us. This will really enhance our ability to serve our clients in what we expect will be another tremendously busy year in 2022,” said John Timperio, global finance partner and lead of Dechert’s structured credit and CLO team. “We’re very excited to welcome Melissa, Erin and Taylor to our growing group. They bring a diverse set of skills and talents and have really hit the ground running and bringing a number of client relationships with them.”
Dechert is distinguished for having the top structured credit and CLO team in the world, consistently at the forefront of the most innovative and challenging matters. Dechert’s deep bench of talented lawyers is widely recognized for inventing much of what has become established practice in this space. The team serves a diverse global client base that includes some of the most prolific CLO underwriters as well as most of the largest asset managers and equity investors. Currently, Dechert works with over 50 CLO managers, more than any other law firm. Among its abundant accolades in this space, Dechert has recently been recognized as “Structured Finance Practice Group of the Year” by Law360, and “CLO Law Firm of the Year” by GlobalCapital.
Dechert is consistently ranked as Band 1 by Chambers and Partners USA for Securitization: CLOs and named as a leading firm for Capital Markets: Securitization with areas of strength across ABS, CLO, CMBS and CRE CLO transactions. Most recently, Dechert was once again voted by clients as “the law firm that provides the best service to U.S. and European CLO managers” in the Creditflux CLO Census. In addition, Asset-Backed Alert recently named Dechert the “Top Issuer’s Counsel for U.S. CLOs by Deal Volume and Deal Count.”
Dechert’s global finance group provides a responsive, interdisciplinary, multi-jurisdictional team to address the complexities of modern finance transactions across categories and geographies. With more than 170 lawyers in the world’s major financial centers, our internationally recognized practice provides clients with innovative deal structuring, creative financing strategies and efficient execution. Our clients receive comprehensive solutions for all their finance needs. By tapping into the breadth of Dechert’s expertise, we deliver advice on real estate finance, structured finance, leveraged finance and securitization matters.