Overview
Claire Love’s vast expertise in trust and trustee representations encompasses virtually all asset classes and numerous transaction structures.
Claire concentrates her practice on transactional matters involving Delaware statutory trusts, with a particular focus on structured finance transactions. She has significant experience representing banking institutions and trust companies in connection with their trust and agency services—including in their roles as owner trustee, Delaware trustee, indenture trustee, collateral agent, custodian, paying agent, administrator, registrar, and exchange agent—in a variety of commercial transactions.
She serves as special Delaware counsel to issuers, investors, underwriters, arrangers, and others with respect to structured finance transactions involving
- asset-backed securities,
- hybrid capital securities,
- real estate financings,
- covered bond issuances, and
- equipment lease transactions.
Claire’s practice includes providing advice on the formation, structuring, and operation of master trusts, owner trusts, series trusts, grantor trusts, titling trusts, real estate investment trusts, common law trusts, and liquidating trusts in transactions of all types, including public and private offerings and off-shore and cross-border transactions. Claire also has experience with structuring special purpose bankruptcy-remote entities to protect against substantive consolidation with affiliates and other persons.
PRACTICES
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- All types of asset-backed securitization transactions, including credit card receivables, automobile loans, student loans, residential and commercial mortgage loans, commercial loans, intellectual property, insurance policies, timeshare interests, consumer loans, and royalties
- Hybrid capital securities and trust preferred transactions
- Titling trusts and series trusts
- Leveraged lease and structured finance transactions, including equipment and project finance transactions
- Collateralized debt and loan obligations
- Substantive consolidation and formation of bankruptcy-remote entities
- University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., with honors, 2004
- Goucher College, B.A., 1996
Education
Pro Bono Activities
- Estate-Planning Team, Delaware Volunteer Legal Services
- Child Attorney, Delaware’s Office of the Child Advocate
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, since 2022
Bar Admissions
- Delaware, 2005