Mason specialises in securitisation and structured finance transactions. He has acted for a wide range of clients, including asset originators, Australian and foreign banks, trustees, issuers, joint lead managers, and arrangers. His experience in this field focuses on residential mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities in both domestic and international markets, and covers a variety of asset classes including residential mortgages, commercial property mortgages, personal loans, credit cards and motor vehicles.
His recent matter highlights include:
- Acting for various non-bank originators, such as AFG, Angle Finance, Humm, Latitude, Liberty, Pepper Money and Thinktank on all aspects of their residential mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities public term securitisation transactions.
- Acting for a range of non-bank originators in establishing their private warehouse securitisation programmes.
- Acting for Australian ADIs in establishing their funding-purpose warehouse and capital relief warehouse programmes.
- Advising the treasury team at NAB on their residential mortgage securitisation programmes.
- Acting for Westpac on a number of warehouse and term securitisation transactions, providing advice in their capacity as senior financier, swap provider, and dealer/joint lead manager/arranger, as applicable.
- Acting for various Australian ADIs with their repo-eligible internal self-securitisation programmes, including Bank Australia, Australian Mutual Bank, Australian Military Bank, Bank of Sydney, Teacher’s Mutual Bank and Defence Bank.
