Alexander Shopov

Alex is a cross-border securitisation and structured debt partner, based in London, with 20 years’ experience of market firsts in the performing and distressed financial asset markets. Alex is experienced in the monetisation of non-standard asset classes and financial assets considered more difficult to securitise or repo.

Alex is the Head of English law for the Linklaters Finance Division (comprising securitisation, derivatives, equity and debt capital markets, banking and leveraged finance, energy and infrastructure, financial regulation and regulatory capital, investment funds and real estate) and sits on the City of London Law Society’s Financial Law Committee.

Alex was awarded the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe 2024 Award for Sustainability and ESG.

Alex spent a year on secondment in the securitisation team of a leading international financial institution in 2006.

Work highlights

His credentials include advising:

• An investment fund on a £4bn UK RMBS and the first-ever partial securitisation call and reissuance of part of the capital structure 
• The arranger investment bank on a £3bn UK RMBS with a bank risk retainer structure
• The issuer bank on the establishment of the first-ever Singapore covered bond programme
• An investment fund on the first UK equity release mortgage (ERM) securitisation since the financial crisis 
• An investment fund on the first-ever trade finance securitisation programme
• The originator bank on the first-ever UK PFI project loan securitisation 
• An investment fund on the first-ever non-bank non-performing loan (NPL) securitisation in Portugal
• Credit funds on an innovative non-recourse commercial real estate lending repo programmes (US law and English law)
• A UK auto lender on its debut auto securitisation
• A UK bank on its innovative fund finance forward flow disposal programme with a leveraged co-investor
• An investment fund on the acquisition financing of the largest portfolio of Spanish NPLs and REOs 
• U.S.-based investment funds on their European risk retention platforms

Alex was the Chair of the governing body of a Hackney (London) primary school in difficulties and led its turnaround programme. During his eight years as governor, Alex and his colleagues saw the school go from the bottom of Hackney’s exam results table to being in the Top 3.

Alex studied law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.