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Marke has more than 30 years of experience in the London structured debt capital markets, including as a securitisation partner at Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling.
Marke has published articles on legal, regulatory, tax and accounting aspects of securitisation and has spoken at finance conferences around the world.
Marke has completed some of the most significant deals in the London structured debt capital markets and developed techniques that have become market standard. His experience includes the securitisation of corporate loans, hire purchase and conditional sale contracts, equipment lease receivables, dealer finance receivables, swap receivables, residential mortgages, trade receivables, utilities and whole businesses. Marke has also been a leader in the development of AAA-rated structured investment vehicles. He led the Allen & Overy transaction team on the first de-linked UK CLO (‘Aurora’), which won the IFLR award for European Structured Finance Deal of the Year.
Highlights from Marke’s deal list include:
- first UK CLO
- first UK whole business securitisation
- first de-linked UK CLO
- first UK CLO to combine a master trust with an originator trust
- first 'modern' structured investment vehicle
- first UK swaps securitisation
- advising on more than US$12bn in liquidity for post-credit crisis structured investment vehicles
- advising an international rating agency on market-wide legal and regulatory issues
- total return swap facilities and security under programmes totalling €0.4 trillion
Marke has been ranked among the top 20 securitisation lawyers in the world by Euromoney Institutional Investor and was named as a leading expert for many years in all of the major directories. Marke has served as an expert witness and/or expert adviser in major regulatory and insolvency proceedings, CMBS litigation and litigation regarding the professional standard of care for lawyers advising on structured debt capital markets transactions. He is on P.R.I.M.E. Finance's panel of UK market experts.
Marke has taught securitisation in the LL.M. programme at Queen Mary, University of London for more than 25 years. He gave evidence on securitisation and the credit crisis to the House of Lords European Union Committee in 2009. Marke was a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee's ('FMLC') Advisory Group on Brexit and was on the FMLC Brexit Working Groups on Governing Law and Jurisdiction and on the European Insolvency Regulation.
Marke holds a B.A. from Simon Fraser University, an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia and an LL.M. from Trinity Hall, Cambridge (offered a tax research fellowship on graduation at Queens' College, Cambridge – not taken up).
He is admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales, as an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law in New York and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Ontario.
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