Christian Lambie
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Christian Lambie is a partner based in our London office. He has over 25 years of experience as a securitization lawyer. He joined Norton Rose Fulbright from a leading investment bank, where he was senior legal counsel, and is a former partner at another large international law firm.
Christian focuses primarily on structured finance and securitization transactions – with an emphasis on mortgage funding, WBS/corporate finance, trade receivables, commercial real estate (including portfolio trading and financing) and consumer debt – as well as restructuring and distressed transactions. He has advised on a number of market-first transactions and has significant cross-border experience. He advises investors, issuers, arrangers and other transaction parties.
Professional experience
Collapse all- Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
- Advised Powen Group and Brookfield Renewable on the structuring and establishment of an up to €120mn solar receivable borrowing-base financing structure funded by Barclays Europe. This was the first European solar securitization of a portfolio combining receivables in both the residential and commercial and industrial sectors.
- Advised RBS as arranger and lead manager of €5.65bn of RMBS note issuances under its Celtic RMBS programmes, the relevant transactions relating to portfolios of mortgage loans originated by Ulster Bank.
- Advised Eurohypo as the structurer, arranger and lead manager on the majority of the CMBS issuances (including pan-European issuances) undertaken under the Opera programme.
- Advised GMAC-RFC as originator on a number of the residential mortgage securitizations carried out under its multibillion-pound residential mortgage securitization programme known as RMAC.
- Advised Blackstone as structurer and sponsor in connection with the restructuring (by means of a consent solicitation) of its outstanding opco/ propco CMBS debt secured on the four original Center Parcs UK holiday villages.
- Advised Goldman Sachs as structurer and arranger of the €1.34bn sale and leaseback credit-tenant linked CMBSstyle financing of the Banco Santander retail branch network in Spain.
- Advised Barclays in connection with the rated structured finance elements of the £390m development financing.
- Advised Barclays as structurer, arranger and lead manager in respect of the establishment of the Globe Pubs group (divested from Heineken) and its financing by means of an £257m whole business securitization
Insights
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Publication | May 28, 2024
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Publication | May 28, 2024
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Publication | May 28, 2024