Richard Hanson advises alternative investment funds, asset managers, insurance companies on a broad range of complex structured products. He represents borrowers in funding structures backed directly and indirectly by commercial real estate debt, direct lending/leveraged loans, distressed, non-performing and reperforming debt, as well as a range of other esoteric asset classes other asset classes.
Rick has been consistently ranked as a leading securitization lawyer by Legal 500 and was named a leading lawyer by Thomson Reuters in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
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Work Highlights
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. on a repack-to-repo CRE back leverage platform with a major European financial institution
- A private credit fund on a warehouse origination facility with a major European financial institution, structured as a private securitization backed by bridging loans
- A pan-European CRE debt fund on a loan-on-loan financing with a major European financial institution backed by English and Spanish development and investment loans secured on logistics, purpose-built student accommodation and industrial assets
Accolades
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Thomson Reuters: Standout Lawyer, 2023-2025
Education
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Nottingham Law School, 2005 Legal Practice Course
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Nottingham Law School, 2004 Graduate Diploma in Law
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University of Oxford, Keble College, 2003
M.A. (Oxon)
Based in the Firm’s London office, Rick Hanson is a member of Simpson Thacher’s Capital Markets Practice with a focus on securitization and structured products.
His practice encompasses advising on all types of private structured credit solutions for asset managers, with experience in commercial real estate back leverage in the form of loan-on-loan, repurchase facilities, repack-to-repo programs, private securitizations and derivatives-based financings. He has extensive experience across each of the investment funds, real estate, energy and infrastructure markets.
Rick advises on acquisitions of, and structured financings backed by, esoteric assets such as handset receivables, merchant cash advances, litigation and disbursement funding loans, insurance surplus notes and reverse/equity release mortgages.
Rick has been consistently ranked as a leading securitization lawyer by Legal 500 and was named a leading lawyer by Thomson Reuters in 2023, 2024 and 2025.