Emil Arca
Partner
New York
Practice Group
Finance
Emil Arca heads the firm's International Debt Capital Markets practice group for the Americas. He represents underwriters, placement agents, issuers, investors, lenders, borrowers, and insurers in debt capital markets, banking, and restructuring transactions in the United States and around the world, particularly in emerging markets. Originating in two dozen countries and involving diverse industries, many of the transactions were the first of their type involving a particular structure, asset type, or country.
Since 2001, nine transactions Emil has worked on have earned 20 "Deal of the Year" awards or other prominent award recognitions. You may recognize a few of the honors: Financing Innovation of the Year and Structured Finance Deal of the Year (Latin Finance, 2014); Corporate Finance Deal of the Year (Latin Lawyer, 2014); a commendation in the Financial Times 2012 U.S. Innovative Lawyers awards; and Latin American Deal of the Year (Euromoney, 2010).
In emerging markets, Emil has worked with structured finance transactions backed by operating assets (airports, drill ships, mines, toll roads); future flow cross-border assets (airline tickets, credit card merchant vouchers, diversified payment rights, export receivables, oil royalties, telephone receivables); and existing financial assets (commercial real estate leases, construction loans, residential mortgage loans, telephone receivables, vehicle loans and leases), and more.
U.S. securitization transactions he has worked on include transactions backed by auto loans, equipment leases (aircraft, railcars, and small-ticket equipment), franchise loans, healthcare receivables, insurance premium finance loans, mortgage loans (commercial, multi-family, and residential properties), nonperforming assets, royalties, small business loans, and trade receivables.
"They are by far the leading team and practice for structured non-vanilla bonds. The team, under partner Emil Arca, is increasingly senior, so the quality of the work is really world class. [T]he speed of execution is also great... Emil has been doing this for 30 years, and I haven't found an issue, structuring or otherwise, that he hasn't already encountered in various declamations. He's able to use all that experience to find an elegant solution to whatever the issue is. I have nothing but excellent things to say."
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"They are by far the leading team and practice for structured non-vanilla bonds. The team, under partner Emil Arca, is increasingly senior, so the quality of the work is really world class. [T]he speed of execution is also great... Emil has been doing this for 30 years, and I haven't found an issue, structuring or otherwise, that he hasn't already encountered in various declamations. He's able to use all that experience to find an elegant solution to whatever the issue is. I have nothing but excellent things to say."
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