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Steven Minke
Associate Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, Dutch, French
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Legal 500 UKSteven Minke stands out amongst associates in the securitisation world for his commitment in the face of challenges and relationship building.
Steven is an associate in the firm's International Debt Capital Markets group based in London. He primarily advises on securitisations of renewable assets (such as solar panels (both corporate and domestic), heat pumps, electric vehicles and green use-of-proceeds transactions), including a number of industry firsts both in the UK and Europe.
The product of two cultures and fluent in three languages, Steven feels most at home on complex cross-border deals involving multiple jurisdictions. He has spent six months in the firm's Paris Structured Finance team where he advised a mixture of English and French clients, as well as six months on secondment to a U.S. based bank advising on a broad range of asset backed transactions.
Legal 500 UKSteven Minke stands out amongst associates in the securitisation world for his commitment in the face of challenges and relationship building.
Representative experience
Advised the junior investor on a facility backed by SME loans guaranteed by the U.K. government under CBILS, one of the first such securitisations of its kind.
Represented Citi and Piraeus Bank as Arrangers and JLMs on a securitisation of auto-lease receivables from the Greek franchisee of Avis, the largest non-banking securitisation in Greece to date.
The seller on a competitive auction process for the sale of a significant portfolio of life time mortgage loans
Advised a pool of international and French banks on the structuring and successive upsizes of a USD1bn asset-backed facility for a leading worldwide shipping group.
Advised Ford Credit Europe and various European Ford entities on their retail and wholesale automotive securitisations in the UK and the EU.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M in International Banking and Finance Law, University of Edinburgh, Distinction, 2016
- LL.B. Law, Utrecht University, 2015
- Bachelor of Arts, Utrecht University, 2013
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales