Author: John Deacon

JOHN DEACON is Executive Director and Head of Debt Principal Finance at UBS in London where he focuses on asset-backed investment opportunities for the Euro 3 billion Brooklands Synthetic CDO series originated by UBS Principal Finance in London since 2001. He is also a co-founder of the Thor ABS asset-backed securities website (www.Thor ABS.com). Prior to joining UBS he was Head of Principal Finance at Greenwich Nat West, where he was responsible for the acquisition and restructuring of performing and non-performing assets for the balance sheet of the bank. Mr. Deacon has worked as a securitisation, principal finance and derivatives specialist in the European and Asian markets as an investor, issuer, investment banker and lawyer in London, Paris and Hong Kong. He has extensive global securitisation and principal finance experience from transactions in France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Thailand and the UK and structuring in Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden and the Philippines, for products as diverse as: * Principal finance * Non-performing loans * Whole business * Commercial mortgages * Synthetics * Residential mortgages * Credit derivatives * Auto leases and hire purchase contracts * Structured derivatives * Trade receivables * Bond repackagings * Multi-family residential real estate * CDO structures * Commercial real estate * Commercial paper conduits * Nuclear moratorium credits * Asset-backed MTN programmes * PFI receivables Mr. Deacon qualified as a lawyer at Clifford Chance. He is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in Hong Kong and an ACIB and has written articles for the International Securitisation Report and for the International Securitization & Structured Finance Report. He has spoken at seminars and workshops for securitisation and credit derivatives industry professionals organised by Euromoney, AIC Conferences, ICC and Futures & Options World.