Sara E. Whyte

Partner Asset Finance & Securitization

New York +1 212 446 4690

Sara E. Whyte

Overview

Sara Whyte represents investment banks, finance companies, asset managers and investors in connection with securitization transactions involving a broad variety of asset types, including timeshare, auto loans, marketplace loans, equipment lease and trade receivables. Her experience also includes open market and balance sheet CLOs.

Asset Securitization

Represented originators, underwriters, asset managers and conduit sponsors in transactions such as:

  • transactions funding many specialty asset classes, including marketplace loans, insurance premium finance loans, timeshare loans, healthcare receivables, credit card processing fees

  • multiple public and private ABS offerings secured by pools of retail auto and truck loan receivables, auto leases and dealer floorplan loans

  • ABCP transactions financing pools of trade receivables and other assets

  • private offerings of collateralized loan obligations and collateralized debt obligations

Principal Finance

Represented asset sellers, principal finance groups and private equity funds in a variety of structured transactions, including:

  • whole loan sales and forward flow sales of portfolios of retail auto loans

  • purchases, sales and financings of pools of credit card receivables

  • acquisitions of equity interests in asset managers and servicers of pools of commercial loans, student loans and credit card receivables

Judicial ExternHonorable Kurt D. EngelhardtUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

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Thought Leadership

Publications 

Co-author, "MM CLOs: Trends and Outlook for 2008", Asset Securitization Report, November 2007

Co-author, "Trends to Watch in the Middle Market CLO Market for 2007", Asset Securitization Report, November 2006 and High Yield Report, November, 2006

Seminars

Moderator, “Securitization Fundamentals: True Sales, Special Purpose Vehicles, Revolving versus Amortizing Structures and Other Basics,” American Bar Association Business Law Section, Chicago Meeting, September 12, 2014.

Recognition

Recognized for Structured Finance: Securitization by The Legal 500 United States, 2019–2020

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2005North Carolina
  • 2009New York

Education

  • Tulane University Law SchoolJ.D.magna cum laude2005

    Order of the Coif

    American Bankruptcy Institute Medal for Excellence in Bankruptcy Studies

    Managing Editor, Tulane Law Maritime Journal

  • University of VirginiaB.A., Psychology2002