Jerry Marlatt Joins Morrison & Foerster

Jerry MarlattJerry Marlatt has moved to the Morrison & Foerster law firm from Clifford Chance, according to an announcement today (July 9).

Marlatt is considered among the lawyers who have helped pioneer covered bonds in North America.  He is credited with helping to engineer the first issuance of covered bonds in U.S. history (by Washington Mutual).

Readers of Covered Bond Investor™ may recall that he has contributed four commentaries to these pages, beginning with "How Covered Bonds Could Extricate the U.S. Government from Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities."

An email from Morrison & Foerster describes his background like this:

"Jerry Marlatt's practice focuses on a broad array of structured capital markets transactions, including covered bonds, surplus notes, structuring specialized investments and operating vehicles, securities repackagings and public and private offerings of asset-backed securities, structured debt securities, commercial paper and other innovative financial products.  Mr. Marlatt advised the dealers in connection with the first covered bond program by a U.S. depository institution (2006 Euromoney deal of the year) and has subsequently advised the dealers in connection with a number of covered bond programs for Canadian banks.  Mr. Marlatt is an inaugural member of the Steering Committee of the U.S. Covered Bonds Council."

Marlatt will be joining the firm's Capital Markets Group.