Evan H. Janssens is an associate in the Complex Securitizations Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He focuses on securitized credit products, asset-backed securities offerings and innovative capital solutions involving a range of collateral types and hybrid structures. Evan advises sponsors, issuers, borrowers, credit funds, initial purchasers, institutional investors and investment banks on a broad array of structured finance transactions, including securitizations, structured private credit financings and other transactions offered on a private placement basis.
Before joining Kirkland, Evan represented arrangers, underwriters and structurers, issuers and asset managers in respect of collateralized loan obligation transactions consisting of new issues, resets and refinancings, and acted for administrative agents and lenders with regard to leveraged loan warehouse financings. He has experience analyzing regulatory frameworks governing aspects of the origination, sponsorship, sale and distribution of securitized financial instruments, including the U.S. credit risk retention rules, the U.S. securitization conflicts of interest rule, and the EU and UK risk retention regimes, together with interpreting proposed amendments and guidance put forward by executive bodies and prudential supervisory authorities in regard to existing legislation. In prior practice, Evan regularly drafted principal transaction documents, such as indentures, credit agreements, collateral management agreements, note purchase agreements, forward purchase agreements and risk retention letters, along with offering memoranda, legal opinions and other ancillary documents in connection with the offer and sale of tranched, rated and unrated debt securities issued in domestic and cross-border securitizations of corporate loans.
Previously, Evan acted as counsel to public and private companies in matters relating to traditional capital market offerings, corporate control and recapitalization transactions as well as disclosure and registration requirements under the federal securities laws. In addition, he has advised publicly held companies on matters at the intersection of corporate governance, fiduciary duty law and securities regulation, including anti-takeover provisions and defensive policy measures, such as “on-the-shelf” shareholder rights plans; compliance with applicable federal laws, rules and regulations with respect to executive compensation recoupment and insider trading arrangements and restrictions, as well as related disclosure obligations; national securities exchange initial and continued listing standards; and the processes for voluntary delisting and deregistration of public company securities.
Evan received a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as submissions editor of the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review. He received a B.A., with distinction, from Cornell University. Evan is admitted to practice in the state of New York.
