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Kissane, Cormac


Firm: Arthur Cox LLP
Position: Partner, , Head of Finance Group
Address: Ten Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, D02 T380
Phone: +353 1 920 1186
Fax: +353 1 920 1020
Email: cormac.kissane@arthurcox.com
Personal URL: http://www.arthurcox.com/people/cormac-kissane/

Special Areas:

Cormac Kissane is the head of the firm’s Finance Department and the Capital Markets Group.

He has very broad experience in the securitisation, purchase and financing of all assets, including residential and commercial mortgages, structured finance transactions and debt capital markets. He has acted on many of the major loan sale transactions in Ireland for sellers, buyers and funders and has advised issuers and arrangers on many RMBS and other securitisation transactions. He advises the Dealers on all of Ireland’s sovereign bonds. Cormac previously worked for leading international law firms in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has lectured in Trinity College, Dublin on Finance Law.

Projects:

Recent transactions include advising:

- Advising M&G on the first residential mortgage securitisation by Finance Ireland, Ireland's largest non-bank lender
- Advising the arrangers of securitisations for Ulster Bank, Dilosk, KBC, Permanent TSB and Mars/Oaktree and the trustee on a securitisation for Bank of Ireland
- Advising AIB on an RMBS transaction (Burlington Mortgages), Ireland's first STS compliant RMBS
- Advising EBS and Bank of Scotland on all of their residential mortgage securitisations
- Advising the dealers on all Irish covered bond programmes (for AIBMB, BOIMB and EBSMF)
- Advising the dealers on all of Ireland's syndicated sovereign bond issues
- Advising the dealers on Ireland's first Green sovereign bond
- Advising sellers, buyers and financiers of Irish NPLs, including advising Carval, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Sankaty, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Nomura and Morgan Stanley
- Advising on numerous ABS transactions including CMBS transactions for BAML, RBS and Morgan Stanley and the only public Irish CBMS transaction and receivables financing transactions for many corporates and banks
- Advising arrangers and managers on multiple CLO transactions including for the following investment managers: Apollo, AXA, Carlyle and Chenavari

Deals and Awards:

Recognised in the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards 2021
Recognised in the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards 2020
Recognised in the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards 2022

Publications:

Author of the ‘Ireland’ chapter of the book: "Securitizations: Legal and Regulatory Issues" (Law Journal Press, New York), which covers 21 jurisdictions worldwide.

Qualifications:

LL.B, 1992, Trinity College, Dublin
Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2003
Admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland (non-practising), 2003
Admitted to the New York Bar, 2003
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (non-practising), 1998

Memberships:

Board of the Hospice Foundation of Ireland

 


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