Elizabeth Hardin is a partner in the Global Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Ms. Hardin has extensive experience in securitizing financial and hard assets in both domestic and cross-border transactions. She represents issuers, underwriters, swap counterparties, institutional investors, monoline insurance providers and structuring agents.
Ms. Hardin has acted as transaction counsel in many innovative transactions, including the first international securitization of forward oil sales, securitizing receivables generated from future sales of crude oil from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Nigeria and Trinidad. Ms. Hardin has extensive experience in cash flow ABS CDOs and synthetic CDOs, referencing high grade and mezzanine asset-backed securities with structures that include issuance of term debt, revolving and delayed drawdown debt, asset backed commercial paper and equity securities and structural enhancements using derivative liquidity facilities, synthetic derivatives and total rate of return swaps. She also has significant expertise in international securities transactions, mortgage-backed obligations, public and private auto loan and auto lease receivable securitizations, aircraft ticket securitizations and credit card securitizations.
Ms. Hardin received her J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary. She is the treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and a Fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel. |