Credit Suisse $800 million mortgage-backed securities issue

Overview:

• Credit Suisse has issued $800 million in mortgage backed securities in two tranches of $400 million each. 
• The securities were offered as a private placement with Credit Suisse Securities acting as initial purchasers.
• Dentons (Giorgio Bovenzi, Charles Gelinas, Erik Klingenberg) was Credit Suisse's international counsel. 
• Homburger (Stefan Kramer, Daniel Haeberli, Stefan Oesterhelt) acted as Swiss counsel to the bank. 
• Alston & Bird (Karen Gelernt) advised Credit Suisse on the US law issues relating to its underlying interest in the mortgage loans.

 Afroditi Koulaxi - Journalist - EMEA