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Experience:
Jeff Chen is a structured finance practitioner with experience that spans all of Asia. He focuses on cross-border financing structures of all types and on engineering various types of hybrid instruments. Jeff advises banks, monolines, swap providers, rating agencies, and corporations on major securitizations in Asia and on various derivatives transactions, particularly credit derivatives, including their use in credit linked notes and synthetic CDOs. Jeff is also familiar with local law peculiarities across Asian jurisdictions and coordinates regional local law compliance issues such as netting and collateral. In recent years, Jeff has advised on a number of award-winning or nominated transactions out of Korea (Samsung Life, the first-ever Korean cross-border RMBS), Taiwan (Hsinchu International Bank, the first-ever Taiwan cross-border RMBS), and China (Huarong Asset Management NPLs).
As an American lawyer, Jeff is knowledgeable with and has advised clients on the US and New York law aspects of offerings into the United States of conventional and hybrid securities. He has advised issuers and underwriters on private placements and public offerings. He has experience with the issues that typically arise under US securities laws and regulations, including Regulation S, Rule 144A, and the 1940 Act. Jeff also advises clients on compliance with Regulation AB and other rules applicable to asset-backed securities in the United States. Furthermore, he has experience with issues under US banking, insurance, securities, and commodities laws relating to the sale and distribution of these types of instruments into the United States.
Jeff is listed as a leading lawyer (Capital Markets: Securitisation) in the Chambers & Partners Global Guide, which distinguishes him as being motivated to tackle tough deals (2007). "Peers at PRC and international firms extol his long-standing experience, and highlight his popularity amongst Chinese and other clients." Chambers Asia 2007. He is also listed in IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance and Securitisation Lawyers, and is regularly cited in Asia Pacific Legal 500 under Structured Finance and Securitisation. Jeff joined Mayer Brown in 2006 and speaks Mandarin.
Jeff is a partner of Mayer Brown LLP.
Education:
The George Washington University Law School, JD, 1988, University of Michigan, MA, 1984, The University of Michigan, BA, 1977. | 