Richard Hanson advises alternative investment funds and asset managers on structured finance, securitization, and bespoke finance solutions in a wide range of alternative and illiquid asset classes. Rick has experience with funding structures backed directly and indirectly by commercial real estate (CRE) debt, private credit, distressed debt, and other asset classes. He advises on all types of private structured credit solutions for asset managers, with experience in CRE back leverage in the form of loan-on-loan, repurchase facilities, repack-to-repo programs, private securitizations, and derivatives-based financings, as well as warehouse lending and the acquisition and financing of loan portfolios using securitization and structured lending techniques.
Rick handles all types of liquidity and leverage solutions for alternative asset managers as borrowers of fund finance products, including net asset value (NAV) based/mark-to-market finance, subscription line finance, hybrid facilities that combine subscription line and NAV collateral, and general partner financings. Rick has been included in the Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers database for 2023 based on client feedback.
Stand-out Lawyer, Thomson Reuters (2023, 2024)
Recommended, Finance: Securitisation, The Legal 500 UK (2024, 2025)
Recommended, The Legal 500 UK (2016–2020)
Member, Law Society of England and Wales