Chris McGarry

White & Case

Chris McGarry’s capital markets and finance practice expands beyond what is traditionally expected for a partner in his field. On the one hand, last year McGarry advised a number of banks, including BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, new client Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as arrangers on 10 European collaterised loan obligations.

On the other side of his practice, focused on securitisations, he advised the UK’s largest guarantor loans lender Amigo Holdings on the establishment of its £200m guarantor loan securitisation programme and also worked with Habito, the online mortgage broker, on its debut securitised mortgage financing platform.

McGarry also counselled funds advised by TPG on the first-ever Italian CMBS transaction, structured to be dual- compliant to US and European risk-retention rules.

The White & Case partner is combining his practice with a different kind of mission. He has partnered with UN Women to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) bond market to finance the delivery of gender equality by 2030, working with JP Morgan. He is also working with BNP Paribas to develop SDG collateralised loan obligations and has started a mental health charity, Awesome Minds, with cricketer Sarah Taylor.