Global law firm Hogan Lovells Cadwalader added Joanna Suna as a structured finance partner in its New York office. She joins the firm from Mayer Brown.
“We are excited to welcome Joanna to Hogan Lovells Cadwalader,” James Doyle, global head of the corporate and finance practice group, said. “As the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market continues to rapidly evolve, her diverse experience in these securitizations will be highly valuable to our clients.”
Suna focuses her practice in structured finance, with significant experience in CLOs and structured products, including synthetic credit-linked repackagings and rated note feeders. She has guided clients on a wide range of transactional and regulatory issues involving CLOs, securities repackagings and other types of complex structured products. She also has experience in different types and uses of swaps in such transactions, as well as in warehousing and funding facilities and secondary repackagings of related products. Suna is a legacy Cadwalader alumna, having worked for the firm on two separate occasions, including immediately prior to joining Mayer Brown.
“As the second structured finance partner to join us in the past month, Joanna’s arrival reflects our commitment to invest in areas where we are market leaders,” Stu Goldstein, the firm’s deputy regional managing partner – Americas and global structured finance and derivatives co-practice leader, said. “CLOs are clearly one of those areas: we’ve advised on over 110 CLO deals valued in excess of US$50 billion in the past year, and welcoming Joanna back into the fold is a sign of even greater things to come for our clients and our firm.”
Bill Mills, office managing partner of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s New York office, added, “Our New York office is synonymous with our decades-long leadership in structured finance. Having Joanna return to a familiar office that’s part of a brand new, one-of-a-kind global platform is something we’re all very excited about.”
Suna said, “I am thrilled to be part of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, which feels both intimately familiar and like a new chapter in the firm’s rich tradition of leading many of the market’s benchmark CLO deals.”
Suna received her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, her LLM in taxation from the New York University School of Law, and her BA from Cornell University.
