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Hogan Lovells Advised BB Securities and BNP Paribas in Rio Oil Finance Trust’s US$600 Million Offering
26 April 2018
Russell C. Slanover
Counsel, New York
Email russell.slanover@hoganlovells.com
Phone +1 212 918 3526
Fax +1 212 918 3100
Practice groupFinance
Russell Slanover has 28 years of structured finance experience that spans most securitization asset types and structures. He draws on that experience to help fashion creative structures and solutions to meet the needs of clients in an ever-changing marketplace.
Russell's background as an aerospace engineer gives him strong quantitative skills and a problem solving aptitude that his clients value. He helps them deal with innovative financial transactions and structures and crafts solutions to effectively address complex legal and business issues.
Russell represents issuers, underwriters, placement agents, investors, borrowers, lenders, insurers, and other parties in a wide range of structured finance, debt capital markets, project finance, and restructuring transactions in the United States and internationally. He has particular experience in emerging markets.
Russell helps clients with structured finance transactions backed by residential mortgage loans, credit card receivables, vehicle loans and leases, vessel charters, consumer loans, bank diversified payment rights, credit card merchant vouchers, export receivables, oil royalties, construction and service payments, and concession payments. He also works with clients on project finance transactions involving toll roads, oil and gas exploration assets, fossil fuel power plants, hydroelectric power plants, and co generation facilities.
Education and admissions
Education
LL.M. Taxation, New York University School of Law, 1995
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, 1983
M.S., The State University of New York, Stony Brook University, 1977
B.E., The State University of New York, Stony Brook University, 1976
Memberships
Member, Industry Advisory Board, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Stony Brook
Member, New York State Licensed Professional Engineer
Bar admissions and qualifications
New York
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Representative experience
Representations of underwriters in oil royalties securitizations in Brazil with principal responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Representation of issuer in credit card voucher securitization in Jamaica with principal responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Representation of issuer in DPR future flow securitization in Brazil with principal responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Representations of investors in American Express, MasterCard, and Visa credit card merchant voucher future flow securitizations in Central America.
Representations of underwriters in deep water drillship securitizations in Brazil with central responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Representations of underwriters in project bonds for ENA Sur and ENA Norte Toll Roads with responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Representation of underwriters in project bonds for Manila Cavite Toll Roads with principal responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Representation of issuer in DPR future flow securitization in El Salvador with principal responsibility for structuring and document drafting.
Latest thinking and events
Hogan Lovells Publications
Summary of key EU and U.S. regulatory developments relating to securitization transactions Brochure
September 2017
Hogan Lovells Publications
SEC Joins Other Federal Regulators in Approving Final Risk-Retention Rule for Securitization Transactions SEC Update
21 November 2014
Hogan Lovells Publications
The Effect of U.S. Securitisation Law Reforms on Foreign Issuers Offering Asset-Backed Securities to U.S. Investors Client Notes
July 2011
