Eileen J. Ho
Eileen J. Ho advises clients on sophisticated structured finance and securitization transactions, including representing arrangers and managers in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), issuers and financial institutions in securitizations, and borrowers and lenders in asset-based lending arrangements. She understands the nuances of executing complicated financing transactions involving many types of financial assets and other collateral, including student loans, consumer loans, healthcare, telecommunications, credit card, home equity investment (HEI) and other trade receivables.
Eileen’s transaction experience includes advising on forward flow purchase facilities, warehouse transactions, master trust structures, VFN structures and term ABS capital markets transactions. Her asset-backed commercial paper conduit experience extends to representing banks in connection with establishing programs and conduit-funded transactions. She also advises clients on regulatory matters, including those related to the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related rules and regulations.
Eileen actively participates as a member of the Structured Finance Association’s Women in Securitization (WiS) Cabinet. She presents on key trends in the banking, insurance, and investment funds industries as well as engagement in the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Working Group and the Private Credit Working Group. Eileen is also the firm’s University of Chicago Law School hiring partner and a member of the firm’s Inclusion Committee and the Asian American/Asian Lawyer Network.
- Represented major underwriters and collateral managers in the structuring and offering of CLOs
- Represented the administrative agent and several bank purchasers in connection with a receivables purchase facility for the sale of wireless “airtime” service receivables for a large US wireless carrier
- Represented Verizon Communications in the establishment of a platform for the sale to a variety of banks and their asset-backed commercial paper conduits of installment receivables generated by their sale of wireless equipment
- Represented C&W Facility Services Inc. and its affiliates in a sale of commercial facility services receivables to ING Luxembourg S.A .
- University of Chicago Law School, 2012, J.D.
- Stanford University, 2007, B.A., English, East Asian Studies
- District of Columbia
- Illinois


Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Banking and Finance Law, Washington, DC (2024, 2025)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, Washington, DC (2024, 2025)
Recommended, Finance: Structured finance: securitization, The Legal 500 US (2022)
Member, Women in Securitization – WiS Cabinet
Member, Women in Financial Markets – Trailblazer Cohort (2025)
Member, The 1902 Leadership Committee
Co-Chair, The University of Chicago Law School Reunion
Member, The University of Chicago Law School Washington, DC Alumni Committee
Co-Founder, The University of Chicago Domestic Violence Project
Comments and Developments Editor, The Chicago Journal of International Law
Recipient, The University of Chicago President’s Volunteer Service Award (2012)
Recipient, Ann Watson Barber Outstanding Service Award (2012)
