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Oscar Saporito

Oscar Saporito is a Special Counsel in the firm's Finance practice. He regularly advises investors, trustees, servicers, agent clients and other financial institutions on a broad range of UK and pan-European structured finance and securitisation transactions. His experience spans a variety of debt capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on structured finance, including CMBS, CLOs, RMBS, non-performing loan securitisations, trade receivables securitisations, healthcare receivables securitisations and leasing securitisations. He advises on both new issuances and complex post-closing matters, including restructurings, refinancings, amendments, consent solicitations and other liability management exercises.

Oscar is dual-qualified, as solicitor in England and Wales and as Avvocato in Italy. 

Prior to joining K&L Gates LLP, Oscar spent five years in the structured finance group of a U.S. law firm, where he gained extensive experience advising investment banks acting as arrangers, lead managers, originators and agents on a variety of cross boarder structured finance transactions, including securitisations of trade receivables, auto loans, residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, NPLS and covered bonds.

Prior to joining the firm, Oscar spent a year at a global credit rating agency in London, where he provided day-to-day legal support to rating analysts by interpreting and analysing transaction documents on a variety of securitisations across a number of different asset classes, with particular focus on CMBS.

Oscar also spent time as an in-house legal counsel at a UK-based investment firm, where he worked closely with the special situations team on a wide range of debt capital markets transactions, serving as primary contact with hedge funds.

  • Recognised by The Legal 500 EMEA as a Recommended Lawyer in Italy for Banking and Finance: Lender or Arranger Side, 2026
  • Panelist, Discussing "Updates on LIBOR Discontinuance," TACT Loan Capital & Capital Markets Conference, London, June 2023
  • Panelist, Discussing "LIBOR Remediation," TACT Loan Capital & Capital Markets Conference, London, July 2022
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