Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- Boston College Law School, JD
- University of Delaware, BS
Sean D. Locklear
Special Counsel
Advises on asset-backed lending and securitization, litigation finance and swaps and other derivative products.
Sean’s experience spans a broad spectrum of asset classes, including litigation advances, structured settlements, life settlements, insurance commissions, equipment leases, lottery receivables and other specialty finance products. He also represents investors in a variety of commercial litigation finance transactions, including law firm loans and plaintiff fundings on both a single case and portfolio basis.
In addition, Sean regularly advises clients on swaps, repos and other derivative products, as well as regulatory developments impacting the derivatives market.
- Represented multiple litigation funders in making investments in patent infringement lawsuits, antitrust litigation, shareholder appraisal rights litigation and complex commercial disputes, both domestically and internationally.
- Represented specialty finance holding company as borrower in a warehouse facility secured by structured settlements, personal annuities, litigation advances, bankruptcy claims, insurance commissions and medical receivables.
- Acted as issuer’s counsel in securitizations of insurance administration fee receivables and insurance commission receivables.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to an originator of loans to mass tort law firms.
- Represented purchaser in forward flow arrangement for the acquisition and financing of middle-market loans.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to a home equity fintech company.
- “Trading Agreements – Buy-Side Considerations (COVID-19),” Schulte Alert, March 17, 2020
- Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation, Practising Law Institute) 2018-2019, contributor, Hedge Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation, ALM Law Journal Press, 2018, contributor
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps,” The Hedge Fund Journal, November 2015, co-author
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps – What Investment Managers Need to Know,” Schulte Client Alert, Nov. 9, 2015, co-author
- Mariner Investment Group
- Represented multiple litigation funders in making investments in patent infringement lawsuits, antitrust litigation, shareholder appraisal rights litigation and complex commercial disputes, both domestically and internationally.
- Represented specialty finance holding company as borrower in a warehouse facility secured by structured settlements, personal annuities, litigation advances, bankruptcy claims, insurance commissions and medical receivables.
- Acted as issuer’s counsel in securitizations of insurance administration fee receivables and insurance commission receivables.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to an originator of loans to mass tort law firms.
- Represented purchaser in forward flow arrangement for the acquisition and financing of middle-market loans.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to a home equity fintech company.
- “Trading Agreements – Buy-Side Considerations (COVID-19),” Schulte Alert, March 17, 2020
- Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation, Practising Law Institute) 2018-2019, contributor, Hedge Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation, ALM Law Journal Press, 2018, contributor
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps,” The Hedge Fund Journal, November 2015, co-author
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps – What Investment Managers Need to Know,” Schulte Client Alert, Nov. 9, 2015, co-author
- Mariner Investment Group
Highlights
Sean D. Locklear
Special Counsel
Advises on asset-backed lending and securitization, litigation finance and swaps and other derivative products.
Sean’s experience spans a broad spectrum of asset classes, including litigation advances, structured settlements, life settlements, insurance commissions, equipment leases, lottery receivables and other specialty finance products. He also represents investors in a variety of commercial litigation finance transactions, including law firm loans and plaintiff fundings on both a single case and portfolio basis.
In addition, Sean regularly advises clients on swaps, repos and other derivative products, as well as regulatory developments impacting the derivatives market.
Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- Boston College Law School, JD
- University of Delaware, BS
- Represented multiple litigation funders in making investments in patent infringement lawsuits, antitrust litigation, shareholder appraisal rights litigation and complex commercial disputes, both domestically and internationally.
- Represented specialty finance holding company as borrower in a warehouse facility secured by structured settlements, personal annuities, litigation advances, bankruptcy claims, insurance commissions and medical receivables.
- Acted as issuer’s counsel in securitizations of insurance administration fee receivables and insurance commission receivables.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to an originator of loans to mass tort law firms.
- Represented purchaser in forward flow arrangement for the acquisition and financing of middle-market loans.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to a home equity fintech company.
- “Trading Agreements – Buy-Side Considerations (COVID-19),” Schulte Alert, March 17, 2020
- Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation, Practising Law Institute) 2018-2019, contributor, Hedge Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation, ALM Law Journal Press, 2018, contributor
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps,” The Hedge Fund Journal, November 2015, co-author
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps – What Investment Managers Need to Know,” Schulte Client Alert, Nov. 9, 2015, co-author
- Mariner Investment Group
- Represented multiple litigation funders in making investments in patent infringement lawsuits, antitrust litigation, shareholder appraisal rights litigation and complex commercial disputes, both domestically and internationally.
- Represented specialty finance holding company as borrower in a warehouse facility secured by structured settlements, personal annuities, litigation advances, bankruptcy claims, insurance commissions and medical receivables.
- Acted as issuer’s counsel in securitizations of insurance administration fee receivables and insurance commission receivables.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to an originator of loans to mass tort law firms.
- Represented purchaser in forward flow arrangement for the acquisition and financing of middle-market loans.
- Represented lenders in warehouse facility to a home equity fintech company.
- “Trading Agreements – Buy-Side Considerations (COVID-19),” Schulte Alert, March 17, 2020
- Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation, Practising Law Institute) 2018-2019, contributor, Hedge Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation, ALM Law Journal Press, 2018, contributor
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps,” The Hedge Fund Journal, November 2015, co-author
- “U.S. Regulators Adopt Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Non-Cleared Swaps – What Investment Managers Need to Know,” Schulte Client Alert, Nov. 9, 2015, co-author
- Mariner Investment Group