Elana M. Hahn

As a domestic and international finance lawyer, Elana Hahn is a trusted advisor to a range of clients – including various foreign and domestic financial institutions and investment funds acting as arrangers, dealers, and credit providers, as well as domestic and multi-national businesses, government agencies, trustees and service providers. Ms. Hahn regularly advises clients on general corporate matters, regulatory matters and commercial contracts in the wholesale banking and consumer finance sphere. She represents clients in lending transactions, with a particular focus on real estate and asset-based lending (both syndicated and un-syndicated). She also has experience acting for issuers and underwriters in connection with private placements and debt programs. She has significant experience in sophisticated debt financing transactions and has led numerous multi-jurisdictional, international and domestic debt financing mandates. Having spent a number of years working at leading US and UK firms in London, England, and practising in these areas in Canada, Ms. Hahn has particular strength in advising on domestic and cross-border debt capital markets, securitization and structured finance transactions. Ms. Hahn has extensive experience in all categories of the mainstream public securitization markets such as auto, credit card and mortgage loan receivables, with a particular focus on residential mortgage trading and residential mortgage-backed securitization. She is proficient in non-standard structured finance, including covered bonds, asset-backed commercial paper and esoteric securitizations, and in repackaging programs, credit-linked securities and other structured products. As a result of her capital markets experience, Ms. Hahn advises on all aspects of wholesale banking and businesses that originate, finance, service and invest in financial assets, including regulatory compliance, warehouse and bridge finance, bank loans, repurchase agreements and synthetic risk transfers, servicing agreements, hedging and derivatives, portfolio trades, and advising businesses on receivables and consumer finance. She also has represented several clients who operate in the Fintech and payments industry.