Taymour Keen

"Taymour is an excellent lawyer to have on your team. Very responsive, a great breadth of experience and commercially pragmatic" – Legal 500, 2022

Partner, Finance - Structured Finance and Securitisation
London

Expertise

Taymour is a partner in the Structured Finance and Securitisation practice. Taymour acts for funds, asset managers, corporates and financial institutions across a very broad range of structured finance, structured real estate finance, securitisation, asset backed finance, litigation finance and special situations matters.

Taymour has substantial experience in private and public securitisations, forward flow transactions, portfolio sales (NPL and performing), real estate financing, loan on loan/back leverage solutions, holdco financing and a variety of asset-backed financing structures and can draw upon his experience across multiple asset classes (including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, development loans, bridging loans, equity release mortgages, auto finance, car rental lease receivables, trade receivables, equipment lease receivables, consumer loans, point of sale receivables, credit cards, student loans, WBS, litigation financing and esoteric) to provide bespoke and novel structuring solutions for clients.

Experience

Taymour's experience includes advising:

private credit funds, global investment companies and originators in respect of loan on loan financing / back-leverage for CRE loans
originators, investment managers and private credit funds on numerous private securitisation programmes and other funding lines for development finance and bridging loans
clearing banks, challenger banks, building societies, investment managers and originators on numerous forward flow programmes for mainstream and esoteric assets
asset management companies, corporates, private credit funds, clearing banks and challenger banks on numerous private and public securitisations of both mainstream and esoteric assets
banks, global investment companies and investment managers on the purchase, disposal and financing of portfolios of loans (performing and non-performing)
private credit funds and global investment companies on litigation financing structures

Education

University of Kent, Law LLB (Hons), 2009

Testimonials

'I have been very impressed by Taymour and his team's ability to combine technical analysis and deep commercial understanding to create an innovative structure for us which meets the requirements of all the relevant parties. We have been very grateful for Taymour's excellent work on this deal.' - Legal 500 2025
‘Taymour Keen is one of the best lawyers I've worked with. He is an excellent lawyer whilst also being a lovely person and I really enjoy working with him. He really wants to know our business and actively takes steps to understand it, so that he can best tailor advice which makes transactions so much easier to manage for us as the client.’ - Legal 500 2025
‘Taymour Keen's knowledge and experience on securitisation-related matters is second to none. You can rely on him to get a deal done even when there are time constraints, offer practical solutions when problems arise and retain a good eye on details that affect our business. More generally, he's a pleasure to work with, is down to earth and respected by colleagues and counterparties.’ - Legal 500 2024
'Taymour is an excellent lawyer to have on your team. Very responsive, a great breadth of experience and commercially pragmatic' – Legal 500, 2022