Vinson & Elkins has appointed Loren Finegold and Ed Comber as partners in its Structured Finance and Securitization practice in New York, with Finegold assuming leadership of the practice. Both attorneys join from Latham & Watkins, where Finegold served as Global Vice Chair of Structured Finance. Their appointments strengthen Vinson & Elkins’ capabilities in energy, infrastructure, digital infrastructure, and specialized asset-backed financing transactions.
Finegold represents banks, institutional investors, private credit funds, and issuers in highly structured asset-based financing transactions.
His experience includes several notable market firsts, including the first two midstream oil and gas securitizations, early securitizations involving hyperscale and colocation data centers, and transactions involving wireless tower ground leases.
He also helped develop the first securitization of proven developed producing oil and gas wells using a master trust structure and the first securitization of earned wage access receivables for a major fintech issuer.
Comber advises sponsors, issuers, borrowers, underwriters, investors, banks, and private credit funds on structured financing and securitization transactions.
His experience spans GPU financing, oil and gas assets, shipping containers, triple-net-lease properties, rental car fleets, and credit card receivables.
He has also worked on music catalog master trust securitizations and financing portability considerations associated with corporate acquisitions.
Finegold and Comber have worked together for nearly a decade.
Their arrival expands Vinson & Elkins’ financing capabilities as institutional investors and private credit providers pursue additional opportunities involving energy infrastructure, digital assets, and other capital-intensive industries.
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“Loren and Ed are exactly the kind of leaders who can accelerate what we’ve already built, with deep knowledge and a shared conviction that the most important structured finance opportunities of the next decade will be won at the intersection of capital markets and the continued build-out of energy and infrastructure.”
Jim Fox, Vice Chair of Vinson & Elkins
“Vinson & Elkins has built an exceptional finance platform and is widely recognized for its leadership in the energy and infrastructure sectors. I see substantial opportunities to bring structured finance solutions to those and other capital-intensive sectors.”
Loren Finegold, Partner and Head of Structured Finance and Securitization at Vinson & Elkins
“Loren and I have worked together for nearly a decade, and we’re looking forward to continuing that partnership at Vinson & Elkins. The firm’s strengths across energy, infrastructure, and other capital-intensive industries give us an exceptional platform to develop structured financing solutions for our clients.”
Ed Comber, Partner at Vinson & Elkins
