Speakers

RUPERT WALL is the Head of Sidley’s Global Finance Group in Europe and the Global Co-Head of Sidley's Structured Finance Practice.

Rupert has over 20 years’ experience structuring asset-backed finance transactions across a diverse range of asset classes (including trade, consumer and other receivables; auto, student, aircraft, shipping, corporate, mid-market/direct lending and other loans and leases; vehicle rental fleets and residential and commercial mortgage loans), encompassing a wide range of public and private financing structures (including RMBS, CMBS, ABCP conduits, covered bonds, whole-business securitisations and CLO/CBO/CDOs, as well as more esoteric or synthetic structures).

Rupert advises fund sponsors, arrangers, originators, investment managers and investors on all aspects of asset-backed lending including securitisation, structured finance, fund financing, structured products and derivatives.

Rupert consistently receives stellar acknowledgement from industry ranking guides, including, most recently being ranked in Legal 500 UK 2025 for each of Securitisation (as a “Leading Partner”) and each of Structured Products; Derivatives and Property Finance (in each case as a “Recommended Lawyer”) as well as in Chambers UK 2025 (both the UK and Global rankings) for each of Capital Markets: Securitisation; Capital Markets: CLOs and Capital Markets: Structured Products. Clients are consistently effusive in their praise commenting in the most recent editions that he is: “an exceptionally talented individual in the securitisation space, which is generally full of talented and smart individuals….He has the ability to understand issues quickly and deal with them thoroughly. If securitisation were a country, Rupert would be the president” and in previous iterations that he is: “a subject matter expert with the ability to get straight to the point; he has a brain the size of a planet and works very well in high pressure situations”.