Global ABS 2026

Daniel (“Dan”) Tobias is a partner in the London office. Dan specialises in securitisation, with a focus on collateralised loan obligations (CLOs). He has represented arrangers, collateral managers, and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and loan warehouse facilities. He has been active in the market since the resurgence of European CLOs and has worked on numerous transactions, including those involving complex originator retention structures. Dan is consistently ranked among top capital markets lawyers by The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Chambers Global, and Chambers UK. Clients commend Dan for his ability to “problem-solve and come up with creative solutions.” Dan received his undergraduate degrees in law and commerce from Victoria University of Wellington and a master’s degree in finance from Cambridge University. Admissions: England and Wales Ireland New Zealand

Rovshan Danilov is a Director at BNY, where he leads initiatives across structured analytics and product solutions for ABS and RMBS markets. With over 19 years of experience, he specializes in securitization, cash-flow modeling, trustee services, and market infrastructure.

Timothy is Head of the Derivatives and Structured Products practice in London, with particular focus on synthetic securitisation, and significant risk transfer. Timothy has for many years been regarded as a market leading lawyer in these areas, regularly acting for all the major UK and European banks, as well as banks in North America and Asia. With his unequalled depth of knowledge and experience in this sector, Timothy is a "go-to" lawyer for banks looking to execute these transactions and is the leading expert in the market on the UK and EU regulatory regimes for significant risk transfer and synthetic STS securitisation. Alongside client work, Timothy also regularly works with industry bodies (in particular AFME and IACPM) in their responses to the various regulatory initiatives affecting this area of the market. In addition, Timothy covers whole business securitisation, interest rate and currency swaps and options, credit default swaps, total return swaps, stocklending and repurchase transactions, and has extensive experience with the full range of ISDA documentation and is heavily involved in various industry bodies.