Eileen Bannon

Eileen Bannon

Eileen Bannon is a partner in the Structured Finance Group at Dewey & LeBoeuf with extensive experience in derivatives and structured capital markets transactions. Ms. Bannon's experience is extremely broad, and includes among other things, credit, equity, total return and commodity derivatives, insurance-linked products, market value, cash flow, and synthetic CLOs and CDOs, securities arbitrage programs, warehouse financing programs and asset-backed commercial paper programs. Most recently Ms. Bannon has worked on next generation structures to mitigate counterparty risk, and has advised derivative counterparties about insolvency issues.

Ms. Bannon has also represented participants in numerous public and private securitization transactions backed by a variety of asset types, including excess insurance reserves, residential and commercial mortgages, auto loans, equipment leases, cross-border future remittance and credit card receivables, lottery receivables, Title I loan pools, federal government agency loans, IFC loans, dealer floor plan receivables, municipal tax-exempt obligations and servicer advance reimbursement rights. Has advised sponsors, issuers, underwriters, placement agents, investment advisors, swap counterparties, and credit enhancers.

Ms. Bannon was selected for inclusion in Chambers, USA 2008 - America's Leading Lawyers for Business; Chambers Global 2009, the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers; the Legal 500 US 2008 listed as a "Leading Lawyer" in the category "Capital Markets - Securitization"; Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance Lawyer, and as a "Leading Lawyer" in the category "Capital Markets (Structured Finance)" in IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Financial Law Firms.

Selected Activities

· Member, New York State Bar Association

· Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Professional Organizations

· American Securitization Forum

· International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.

· Member of the Credit Derivatives Market Practice Committee

· Energy, Commodities & Developing Products Committee

· Equity Derivatives Committee

· Women in Derivatives

Speeches and Programs

· "Credit Default Swaps of CDOs," CDO Summit (December, 2007).

· "The Survivors' Conference: How to Adapt in Tomorrow's ABS Market and Win," 13th Annual ABS East Conference (November, 2007).

· "Extendible ABCP Market Developments and Alternative Liquidity," American Securitization Forum (January 2007).

· "Credit Default Swaps of CDOs," CDO Summit (December 2006).

· "Repurchase Agreements Securities Contracts In Commercial Paper Facilities," 5th Annual Investor's Conference on ABCP & SIVs (November 2006).

· "Extendible ABCP Case Studies Roundtable," American Securitization Forum (February 2006).

· "Synthetic Technology and Credit Developments," Eleventh Annual ABS East Conference (September 2005).

· "The Search for Liquidity: Alternative/Extendible Liquidity Options New Product Momentum," Fourth Annual Investors' Conference on ABCP and SIVs (September 2005).