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Ms. Tan is a partner in Brown Rudnick's Structured Finance Group, and also a member of the Climate and Energy Group. She has extensive financial expertise in the areas of equity raisings, capital markets debt offerings, asset-backed, tax-advantaged and structured finance transactions including securitization, derivatives and leveraged leasing. She has acted as advisor and counsel to equity investors, lenders, project developers, alternative investment funds, special situation funds, issuers and underwriters.
Most recently, Ms. Tan has advised corporations, financial institutions, specialized funds and the trading community on the financing of alternative energy projects, and derivatives and structured products relating to EU Emissions Allowances as well as certified emission reductions (CERs) under the Kyoto Protocol's CDM regime. She also practices in the area of whole business securitization.
Ms. Tan has structured, executed and closed transactions involving a broad range of asset classes including power generation and transmission facilities, infrastructure assets, waste disposal facilities, freshwater facilities, real estate, airport security systems, telecommunications assets, aircraft and rail assets. She also has extensive experience with cross-border transactions covering multiple jurisdictions in the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
As part of the firm's Structured Resolution Group, Ms. Tan advises on issues surrounding the subprime market collapse in an effort to help clients identify and execute on arbitrage and repackaging strategies.
Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Ms. Tan was principal of Vantis Strategies LLC, a New York-based financial structuring and advisory firm that she founded, where she sourced and advised alternative investment funds and special situation funds on niche and opportunistic investments. Ms. Tan was formerly a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP and also spent several years at an investment bank, Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank) in Hong Kong.
Ms. Tan is fluent in English, Cantonese and Bahasa Malaysia and speaks conversational Mandarin.
Representative Matters
o Currently representing a project sponsor in connection with the financing and development of five wind farms in Brazil. This work includes assisting the company in the equity raising as well as debt financing of the project, and negotiation and finalization of the project sponsor's EPC documents. The wind farms will generate approximately 200 MW of power and will generate carbon credits for use under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
o Represented the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) (in cooperation with the European Investment Bank) in the creation of its Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund (MCCF), a global carbon credit acquisition program. MCCF is the only carbon fund dedicated to countries across Central Europe and Central Asia. Fund participants include six countries - Belgium (on behalf of Flanders), Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, and Sweden - and six private companies in the region.
o Advised foreign-based special situations fund on investment opportunities in the US across a broad risk-return spectrum.
o Represented US equity investors in numerous domestic and cross-border leveraged lease transactions.
o Acted on behalf of swap counterparties and dealers on OTC derivatives, credit default swaps, asset-backed swaps, swaptions, straddle options, credit-linked notes, equity derivatives and other structured products.
Publications
o Co-author, "Why Limit the Asset Class?", International Securitization and Finance Report, September 15, 2007
o "Life Settlement Derivatives: The Potential for a New Market," International Securitization and Finance Report, July 31, 2007
o Co-author, "Green Securitizations - Seeing Beyond the Trees," International Securitization and Finance Report, April 30, 2007
o Co-author, "Securitising New Asset Classes - IP, Wind and Emissions Credits," Global Securitisation and Structured Finance 2006
o Co-author, "States Move Ahead with Regional Initiative," North American Windpower, June 2006
o Co-author, "Greening the Planet," Energy, May 2006
o Co-author, "The International Carbon Emissions Market," Trends, May/June 2006
oCo-author, "Carbon: Is it Just Hot or Is It a New Asset Class?," International Securitization Report, February 15, 2006
o "ABCDS - Marrying ABS with CDS," Asset Securitization Report - ABS East 2005 Conference Daily, September 14, 2005
Speaking Engagements
o Workshop leader, workshop on financing CDM projects under the Kyoto Protocol, American Law Institute-American Bar Association CLE course on "Global Warming: Climate Change and the Law," Washington DC, March 2007
o Panelist, "The Legal and Financing Implications of the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism," International Law Weekend 2006, The Evolving World of International Law, October 2006
Awards & Honors
o Honored by the publishers of Total Securitization and II News as one of the "Top Ten Rising Stars in Securitization," February 2008
Bar Admissions & Memberships
o Admitted to the Bar of the State of New York
o Admitted to the roll of solicitors of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia
o Member, Energy Committee of the New York City Bar Association |
