Tamara Box

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Tamara is Reed Smith’s immediate past managing partner for Europe and the Middle East and leads the firm’s Structured Finance Team globally. Tamara is a widely recognised authority and a leading practitioner in securitisation, structured finance and distressed debt/special situations. She has also been twice named among the 50 Most Influential Lawyers by Financial News (2023, 2022).

She has extensive experience advising arrangers, dealers, issuers and trustees in a wide range of debt instruments, including bonds (securitisations, project bonds, high-yield, convertible, and exchangeable bonds and Islamic bond issuances), the establishment of debt programmes, liability management and private placements.

She regularly advises participants in securitisations, high-yield bonds, structured debt restructurings and workouts. She also has significant experience of distressed debt and non-performing loan acquisitions and disposals, having worked on some of Europe’s largest NPL transactions in the past decade..

She has been involved in cutting-edge securitisation transactions, including the representation of the arrangers of the first Shariah-compliant RMBS out of Saudi Arabia; the first cross-border securitisation in South Africa; the first Turkish workers’ remittances securitisation and the first onshore securitisation of lease receivables in Turkey; and the representation of the originator in the first CMBS out of Dubai. She has worked on structured finance transactions involving assets in over 20 countries and worked with most asset classes. Tamara has particular experience with emerging market structured finance, real estate structured finance and NPLs.