Profile: Thomas W Albrecht

Capital Markets

Biography: Capital Markets

Thomas W Albrecht is a partner in Sidley's Chicago office. Mr Albrecht is a member of the firm's management and executive committees and global coordinator of the structured finance and securitisation practice. His practice includes domestic and international securitisations and structured finance transactions. His clients include multinational corporations, commercial banks, commercial paper and medium-term note conduits, monoline and multiline insurance companies and investment banks. He has assisted in the securitisation of a wide variety of assets including trade receivables, credit cards, consumer loan contracts, automobile loans, motor vehicle leases, wholesale and dealer inventory loans, equipment leases, collateralised loan transactions, collateralised bond obligations, catastrophe bond transactions, royalty payment streams, structured settlements and life contingent contractual cash flows. Mr Albrecht's practice has recently included a number of whole business securitisation transactions.

Mr Albrecht is the co-author of 'Corporate Loan Securitization: Selected Legal and Regulatory Issues', Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law (Spring 1998); author of 'Securitising Receivables: Protecting Against Bankruptcy', International Financial Law Review (September 1990); and contributing editor to Banking and Lending Institution Forms (A S Pratt & Sons).

Mr Albrecht is a member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations and a member of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.