Caleb Adebayo
Structured Finance Associate, New York
"I advise U.S. and foreign underwriters, issuers, asset managers and sponsors on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border securitizations and structured finance transactions."
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Published works
Overview
Caleb is an Associate in the Linklaters’ U.S Structured Finance Practice.
His experience involves advising on Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), leveraged loan warehouse financings and Asset Backed Securities (ABS), including securitization of data centres, renewables, credit card receivables, auto loans and leases, covered bonds, aviation assets and U.S. Law components of European and Australian residential and commercial mortgages.
Caleb has experience advising on New York securities law and U.S. federal securities law, including Rule 144A and Reg S issuances, as well as U.S. credit risk retention and Volcker Rule issues.
He also regularly involves in pro bono work including in women’s rights in the workplace in Africa and immigration issues.
Caleb’s has prior experience working in West Africa on cross-border energy financing deals, including advising lenders and borrowers on syndicated lending transactions, including project finance, secured lending and multi-lender financing structures.
Caleb is keen on the intersection of ESG and securitization, as well as exploring innovative securitization structures for developing and emerging economies.
Work highlights
Selected experience includes advising:
- The U.S. Government on its flagship US$3 billion solar securitization program for the U.S. and Puerto Rico. *
- A publicly listed clean energy asset finance company on its securitization of solar land loan assets. *
- A bulge bracket bank on the establishment of its credit card receivables-backed program. *
- A global leading data centre company on securitization of its data centre receivables. *
- A leading auto finance company on its issuance of auto loan and auto lease ABS in multiple bilateral and syndicated amortizing and revolving facilities. *
*Matters handled prior to joining Linklaters.
Professional experience
Caleb is a Junior Editor for the SFA’s SF Journal: Applied Insights for Practitioners. He is also a key member of the New York City Bar’s Structured Finance Committee and its Energy Committee.
Caleb volunteers with Earthplus Sustainability Network, an environmental nonprofit organization in Nigeria focused on environmental preservation.
Caleb contributed a video lecture on “Legal Principles of Securitization” to the Structured Finance Association’s SFAcademy.
Caleb is a nominee for the Future Awards Prize for Lawyers, a prize dubbed by the World Bank as “The Nobel Prize for Young Africans”. He also won the 2018 JCI TOYP award for Moral and Environmental Leadership.
Caleb is also an International Finance Corporation (IFC) Fellow of NYU’s prestigious IFD Fellowship.