Maggie Zhao

Experience

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  Puender, Volhard, Weber & Axster

  Jul 1999 - Jan 2000

  Legal Assistant
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  Clifford Chance

  Jan 2000 - Aug 2001

  Legal Assistant
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  Clifford Chance

  Sept 2003 - now

  Partner, Global Financial Markets at Clifford ChanceCo-Head of Structured Debt, Asset-Backed and Real Estate Finance LondonGlobal Co-Head of Derivatives and Structured Debt GroupCo-Head of Clifford Chance London China DeskMember of Clifford Chance Partnership Council Maggie is experienced in advising originators, arrangers and investors on all forms of structured debt and financing transactions with particular focus on all forms of public and private residential and commercial real estate financing, portfolio acquisitions and financing, marketplace lending platforms, forward flow arrangements, structured SME financing, pan-European auto and fleet securitisations, credit cards, consumer loan and receivables financing, repackaging and restructuring. Maggie is one of the most versatile securitisation lawyers in the market and has a reputation of advising on many of the most innovative transactions in the market, including advising the British Business Bank on the establishment of the ENABLE funding programme (shortlisted for IFLR's Most Innovative Deal of Year Award for Securitisation & Structured Finance in 2016), Stenn global trade receivables securitisation (IFLR Most Innovative Deal of the Year for Securitisation & Structured Finance 2020) and B2 Holdings NPL financing platform (IFLR Most Innovative Deal of the Year for Securitisation & Structured Finance 2022). Show less

  • Partner

    May 2014 - now

  • Associate

    Mar 2005 - May 2014

  • Trainee

    Sept 2003 - Mar 2005