Jördis Heckt-Harbeck

Jördis has specialised experience in debt capital markets products with a focus on asset based structured finance, including, in particular, true sale and synthetic securitisation, warehouse financings (in particular, in the area of FinTech and digital business models), structured covered bonds, high yield bonds, secured bank financings and other secured financing of various asset classes.

She has expertise in ship and consumer finance and also regularly advises on portfolio sales and NPL transactions.

Citations & Rankings

• Jördis is listed as a "Rising Star“ by Legal 500 Germany 2024 in the category structured finance and securitisation and as an “Up and Coming” lawyer in the area of structured finance by Chambers Europe 2024. She is also recommended by the German legal directory JUVE 2024/25 in the field of structured finance.
• "Jördis Heckt-Harbeck is discreet, very knowledgeable and good at defending the position of her client in negotiations while trying to find a consensus with the counterparty in a solution-oriented manner."

(Chambers Europe 2024)

Jördis joined Linklaters in 2012 and was elected Counsel in 2020. Before joining Linklaters she was active as a freelance author for the German magazine Anwaltsblatt Karriere. 

She is a member of the German-French Lawyers Association (Deutsch-Französische Juristenvereinigung).

Jördis studied law at the University of Kiel and graduated from the Institute Catholique de Paris & Paris VIII in Paris.

She speaks German, English and French.

Podcasts

• She is the co-host of our structured finance podcast The Bottom Line.