Deborah Giurgola | London | Hogan Lovells

Deborah Giurgola

Associate Corporate & Finance

Languages

English, Spanish, Italian

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Deborah Giurgola
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  • Overview
  • Experience
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Deborah Giurgola is part of the Structured Finance group based in London. Deborah works on debt capital markets transactions and focuses on securitisations, where she has gained experience working on a range of asset classes including automotive, fintech, consumer loans and trade receivables. She has advised a variety of key participants on a number of private and public transactions, including lenders, originators and arrangers across several jurisdictions.

Representative experience

Barclays as senior lender and arranger with respect to a £200m invoice finance and asset-based lending securitisation facility with Praetura Commercial Finance and other group companies.

UK investment bank on its £550m innovative securitisation facility of lease agreements originated by a UK based energy company to fund electric vehicles and boost the UK’s green transition.

UK investment bank with respect to its financing of a warehouse for SME merchants originated by a UK company through its embedded finance platform.

Leading UK banks in relation to the securitisations originated by BMW Financial Services (GB) Limited.

Large car manufacturers in respect of a number of UK securitisation transactions (both public and private) and relevant hedging arrangements.

A captive finance company in respect of a number of UK securitisation transactions (both public and private) and relevant hedging arrangements.

A global bank in respect of securitisation transactions of Polish auto and equipment assets.

A pool of major European and global banks in respect of a number of multi jurisdiction securitisations of trade receivables.

A global bank acting as arranger in respect of a significant risk transfer securitisation.

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services UK Limited on its securitisations of consumer automotive receivables through Compartment Silver Arrow UK 2021-1 and 2021-2.

Global banks acting as senior investors in respect of a securitisation of invoice receivables originated by a Spanish start-up.

A captive finance company on its first UK auto Schuldschein transaction.

Credentials

Education
  • Master's Degree in Law, Università del Salento, 2016
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Solicitor, England and Wales