Tara J. Hoffner

Director

hoffner@rlf.com
302.651.7708

Director

Overview

Tara Hoffner is vice chair of the firm’s Business Department and one of Delaware’s leading attorneys in Delaware statutory trusts and common law trusts. 

Tara represents trustees, banks, trust companies, and administrative service providers in asset-backed securities transactions and structured finance transactions.  Tara counsels clients on securitizations, debt issuances, equipment and project finance transactions, leveraged lease transactions, trust preferred transactions, liquidating trusts, litigation trusts, and collateral agency, escrow, custody, paying agent, and registrar roles.

Tara’s experience in trust, trustee, and service provider representation spans virtually all asset classes and transaction structures, and she has represented trustees, administrators, paying agents, escrow agents, and custodians and acted as Delaware trust counsel in some of the world’s most complex and significant Delaware trust transactions.

Serving as special Delaware counsel in Delaware statutory trust and common law trust transactions of all types, Tara’s broad opinion practice encompasses statutory trusts, series trusts, federal and state banking institutions, trustees, common law trusts, and other matters of Delaware law.

PRACTICES

Corporate Trust & Agency Services
Structured Finance

  • Securitization and asset-backed securities transactions, including auto receivables, consumer loans, student loans, credit card receivables, residential and commercial mortgages, intellectual property, licensing fees, and royalties
  • Equipment finance and project finance transactions
  • Titling trust and series trust transactions
  • Aircraft transactions and noncitizen trusts
  • Liquidating trusts, including bankruptcy liquidations and entity wind-downs
  • Insurance trusts
  • Litigation trusts
  • Covered bond issuances
  • Escrow, custody, and collateral agency transactions
  • Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1996
    Woolsack Honor Society
  • Muhlenberg College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1993

Publications

  • “Role of the Trustee,” Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing, Practicing Law Institute
  • The Best Lawyers in America, since 2014
  • Best Lawyers’ Wilmington, DE Securitization & Structured Finance Lawyer of the Year, 2016
  • Delaware, 1996