Sabah Nawaz 

Partner – London
T.+44 (0) 20 7170 8583
sabah.nawaz@cwt.com
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2N 4AG
United Kingdom V-CARD

Sabah Nawaz is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office.

Sabah represents banks, sponsors, originators and issuers on a wide range of international structured finance, securitisation, debt capital markets, refinancing and restructuring transactions.

Sabah is ranked by Chambers & Partners as an up and coming partner, by Legal 500 as a next generation partner and by IFLR 1000 as a rising star partner, with clients noting her ‘deep understanding of the commercial side of the industry’.  Sabah is also named in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in the UK for securitisation.

Sabah has a long track record of innovative and precedent setting work, including developing new securitisation product structures.

Sabah was profiled as part of The Lawyer’s “Festival of Talent' feature for her work advising Investec Bank on its innovative €1 billion secured note programme backed by subscription line facilities, entered into with one of the UK’s largest insurers. The transaction was shortlisted for awards by the Financial Times and The Lawyer.

Sabah advised the arranger and placement agent on the first European CRE CLO since the global financial crisis. Earlier in her career, Sabah represented the sponsor group on the first European CMBS after the global financial crisis, which placed her at the forefront of the CMBS 2.0 market.

Sabah’s experience also includes a secondment to the transaction execution desk in the securitisation team of an investment bank, focusing on asset-backed securitisations and whole business financings.

Sabah is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Sabah's other representative experience includes:

  • advising Atlas SP Partners on the financing of joint ventures between Swedish SBB Group and Castlelake in respect of commercial real estate;
  • advising a UK financial institution on the £2.975 billion securitisation of its commercial real estate portfolio;
  • advising financial institutions on CRE warehouse lending (including by way of “loan on loan” structures) to various sponsors;
  • advising the arranger of the first credit tenant-lease secured bond issuance secured by Austrian lease receivables;
  • advising arrangers on securitisations of consumer loans, auto loans, student loans, credit card receivables and residential mortgages by way of warehouse financing and public issuance;
  • advising financial institutions on European CLO warehouses and public CLO issuance;
  • advising arrangers and issuers in respect of whole business financings and corporate secured debt platforms including advising an airports operator on the liability management aspects of its £13 billion landmark refinancing;
  • advising financial institutions such as Northern Rock during and in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in all aspects of restructuring such as their debt management including advising on portfolio sales; and
  • advising a London Stock Exchange listed company on its debt for equity swap as part of the Group’s overall restructuring.

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