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CHRISTOPHER J. OLIVER
Partner
San Francisco (V-Card)
T: 415.278.9070
F: 415.541.0506
oliver@chapman.com

Christopher J. Oliver is a partner in the Banking Department of Chapman and Cutler LLP’s San Francisco office. His practice is focused on representing multi-national banks, finance companies, commercial paper conduits, issuers, borrowers and placement agents in structuring, documenting and administering various forms of complex debt and equity financing, including asset-based financing, vendor captive financing, leasing and securitization of trade receivables, credit card receivables, auto loans, equipment leases, student loans, and various other asset classes in private placements and commercial paper conduit transactions. Mr. Oliver also advises financial institutions and corporate clients on the structuring of global equipment and software vendor programs.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Oliver practiced at Morrison & Foerster, LLP in San Francisco; at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Chicago; and at Kutak Rock in Denver.

Selected recent transactions:

  • Represented bank sponsor and its commercial paper conduit in connection with $125,000,000 securitization of trade receivables
  • Represented bank sponsor and its commercial paper conduit in connection with $200,000,000 securitization of trade receivables
  • Represented lessors in connection with synthetic lease financing of corporate aircrafts.
  • Represented lenders in connection with $300,000,000 leveraged lease financing of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
  • Represented lenders in connection with $90,000,000 leveraged lease financing of railcars
  • Represented lenders in connection with $65,000,000 leveraged lease financing of parcel sorting system
  • Represented Tideline Capital, Inc. and Tideline Funding LLC, as originator in connection with $100,000,000 software finance receivables securitization
  • Represented originator in connection with $100,000,000 securitization of technology trade receivables
  • Represented software company in connection with its global vendor finance program including sales of receivables to Japanese banks
  • Represented Maxtor Corporation as originator in connection with $100,000,000 disk drive receivables securitization
  • Represented technology company in connection with the sale of Japanese receivables to commercial paper conduits
  • Represented Brooke Credit Corporation in connection with the securitization of commercial loans made to insurance agents
  • Represented initial purchaser of notes in the securitization of health care receivables
  • Represented issuers in connection with securitization of automobile loans
  • Represented issuers in connection with the securitization of equipment leases
  • Represented issuers in connection with the securitization of mortgage loans
  • Represented bank and its commercial paper conduit in connection with the assignment of approximately twenty (20) transactions from one commercial paper conduit to another commercial paper conduit as the result of a change in foreign bank laws
  • Represented bank and its commercial paper conduit in connection with bankruptcy proceeding filed by the originators of receivables that were sold to a special purpose entity pursuant to a securitization
  • Represented banks and their respective commercial paper conduits in the securitization of student loan receivables
  • Represented banks and their respective commercial paper conduits in connection with multiple securitizations of trade receivables
Recent:
Practice FocusAdmitted
  • California
  • Illinois
  • Colorado, (Inactive)
Education
  • University of Denver College of Law, J.D., Order of St. Ives, 1995
  • Indiana University, B.S., Finance (Minor: Economics), Dean's List, 1990
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