Tara Castillo
USA Guide 2023
Band 4 : Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS
Band 4
About
Provided by Tara Castillo
Practice Areas
Tara represents clients in warehouse finance, structured finance, specialty finance, securitizations, and other asset-backed transactions. Tara represents borrowers, issuers, lenders, placement agents, underwriters, and other industry participants across a broad spectrum of asset classes, including auto loans and leases, consumer loans, credit card receivables, floorplan loans, lease-to-own receivables, merchant cash advance loans, and timeshare receivables. Tara also advises on the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions.
Career
Chair, firm’s Structured & Warehouse Finance team; Co-chair, Auto Finance team. Guest lecturer, Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad de Chile law schools in Santiago, Chile, on securitization and structured finance.
Professional Memberships
D.C. Diversity Committee for the firm’s Washington, D.C. office; Structured Finance Association Women in Securitization Cabinet; Ayuda, Board of Directors.
Publications
Co-author of the chapters Securitization Readiness Considerations for Consumer Finance Companies, Timeshare Loan Securitizations, and Auto Loan Securitization in the treatise ‘Securitization: Legal and Regulatory Issues’.