Tauhid Ijaz
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, French
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Legal 500 UK 2025, Capital Markets: Securitisation"Tauhid Ijaz manages to combine high-quality legal advice on very complex structures with a pragmatic and commercial approach to getting the deal done which is much appreciated by clients."
Throughout his career Tauhid has advised on all types of structured finance and debt capital market transactions and their related restructurings in a wide range of asset classes, including commercial and residential real estate, infrastructure and social housing, equipment leasing and insurance, and has also acted on debt portfolio sales and related financings, balance sheet management transaction and Solvency II driven transactions. He has advised a variety of key participants on these transactions, including lenders, arrangers, bondholders, originators, funds and swap providers, and has written and spoken widely in respect of securitization and structured finance and related regulatory and market developments. Tauhid is recognized as a leading practitioner in securitization and structured finance in Legal 500.
Legal 500 UK 2025, Capital Markets: Securitisation"Tauhid Ijaz manages to combine high-quality legal advice on very complex structures with a pragmatic and commercial approach to getting the deal done which is much appreciated by clients."
Representative experience
Advising a significant creditor and noteholder on the restructuring of the £1,477m Punch A securitization.
Advising a significant creditor and noteholder on restructuring of £159.7m tap issuance, tender offer and transaction amendments in respect of £1.25bn Spirit Issuer Plc.
Advising the owner and operator of ports business in relation to refinancing of existing debt by way of single debt platform, permitting both bank/bond debt.
Advising a significant investor on a €2.7bn Spanish residential mortgage certificate and REO residential property financing and note repackaging (Project Hercules).
Advising Deutsche Bank as arranger on the financing of a portfolio of Irish REO residential properties acquired by a debt fund.
Advising Bank of America Merrill Lynch as arranger on a £161m debt on debt financing involving the financing of a pan European CRE loan portfolio.
Advising Kennedy Wilson on its joint venture with Deutsche Bank and related financing of a circa £770m portfolio of UK nonperforming real estate backed loans and swaps.
Advising Starwood Capital in relation to its bid for the RBS's £1.5bn property loan portfolio (Project Isobel).
Advising certain noteholders in relation the restructuring of the €1,519m Windermere XII commercial mortgage backed securitization.
Advising Deutsche bank as arranger on a £200m securitization of auto and healthcare receivables for a major UK leasing company.
Advising a major UK financial institution on a privately £700m auto loan receivables securitization.
Advising Lysing hf on the restructuring of a €500m auto lease receivables securitization and linked derivative arrangements.
Advising a major UK financial institution on a €11bn synthetic CLO structured to achieve regulatory capital relief.
Advising a major UK financial institution on a US$2.25bn total return swap facility structured to comply with stress test requirements.
Advising a reinsurance company on a structured collateralised reinsurance involving the first longevity swap entered into by a UK pension fund.
Credentials
Education
- LL.B., London School of Economics, 1988
- The College of Law, Chancery Lane