Eileen J. Ho

Partner

Eileen J. Ho advises clients on sophisticated structured finance and securitization transactions, including representing arrangers, managers, and investors in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), issuers and financial institutions in domestic and cross-border securitizations, and borrowers and lenders in asset-based lending arrangements. She understands the nuances of executing complicated financing transactions involving many types of financial assets and other collateral, including healthcare, telecommunications, and other trade receivables. Her asset-backed commercial paper conduit experience extends to representing banks in connection with establishing programs and conduit-funded transactions.

She also advises clients on regulatory matters, including those related to the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related rules and regulations.

Eileen actively participates in the firm’s banking, insurance, and investment funds industry teams as well as the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) & Sustainability Working Group. She is also a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Asian American/Asian Lawyer Network.

Represented major underwriters and collateral managers in the structuring and offering of CLOs
Represented Verizon Communications in the establishment of a platform for the sale to a variety of banks and their asset-backed commercial paper conduits of installment receivables generated by their sale of wireless equipment
Represented C&W Facility Services Inc. and its affiliates in a sale of commercial facility services receivables to ING Luxembourg S.A.

University of Chicago Law School, 2012, J.D.
Stanford University, 2007, B.A., English, East Asian Studies

District of Columbia
Illinois

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Banking and Finance Law, Washington, DC (2024, 2025)

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, Washington, DC (2024, 2025)

Recommended, Finance: Structured finance: securitization, The Legal 500 US (2022)

Member, Women in Securitization – Networking & Engagement Committee

Member, The 1902 Leadership Committee

Co-Chair, Washington Local Committee on Associates

Co-Chair, The University of Chicago Law School Reunion

Member, The University of Chicago Law School Washington, DC Alumni Committee

Co-Founder, The University of Chicago Domestic Violence Project

Comments and Developments Editor, The Chicago Journal of International Law

Recipient, The University of Chicago President’s Volunteer Service Award (2012)

Recipient, Ann Watson Barber Outstanding Service Award (2012)