Claire L. Hall

Claire L. Hall

Partner
Co-Head, Structured Finance
Frequent touch points with Claire Hall even in between live deals. We appreciate, what we view as a partnership between our firms. We have a lot of trust in Claire and her team.
— The Legal 500 United States
Los Angeles
About

Claire Hall focuses her practice on structured finance and derivatives. Claire represents issuers, underwriters and investors across a broad range of domestic and cross-border structured, warehouse and asset-backed finance transactions covering both public deals and private placements. In recent years, Claire's asset-backed securities (ABS) experience has focused on esoteric transactions such as solar, trade receivables, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), management fee cashflows, property developer fees, cashflows from multifamily housing assets and music royalties backed securitizations.

Claire has significant experience representing financial institutions, hedge funds, asset managers, dealers and end users in relation to a variety of derivatives transactions and structures. She also advises on regulatory issues affecting derivatives.

Areas of FocusFinancial ServicesFinanceDerivativesStructured Finance and Securitization
Bar admissionsCaliforniaEngland and WalesNew York

EXPERIENCE

  • Represented Concord Music in relation to its US$1.8 billion music royalties backed securitization
  • Acted as investor counsel in relation to multiple private placement LIHTEC securitizations
  • Acted as placement agent counsel in relation to a 144A LIHTEC securitization
  • Represented investors in the private placement purchase of data center asset backed notes
  • Represented multiple borrowers in warehouse financing arrangements
  • Represented the issuer in the private placement of US$100 million ABS notes backed by solar assets
  • Represented the issuer in relation to the issuance of US$250 million music royalty backed notes in a private placement
  • Acted as investor counsel regarding the provision of bridge financing for portfolios of tax-exempt low-income housing bonds
Languages
  • English
  • German

Awards

Chambers USA

  • Band 4, Nationwide Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS, (2024 – 2025)

Chambers Global

  • Band 4, Nationwide Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS, (2025)

The Legal 500 United States

  • Recommended, Structured Finance: Securitization, (2020, 2023 – 2025)
Additional Recognitions
  • Selected, "Dealmakers Impact Report," Variety, (2023 – 2024)
  • "Women of Influence," Los Angeles Business Journal, (2023)
  • Corporate Intl Magazine Global Award: Hedge Fund Transactions Lawyer of the Year in California, (2017)
  • Named, Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star, Law & Politics and Los Angeles magazines, (2014 – 2018)
Education
  • B.A., College of Law, London, 2002
  • LL.B. (Hon.), English and German Laws, Liverpool University, 2001

Bylines

  • Co-author, "Cross-Border Impact of US Margin Rules," Thomson Reuters, December 9, 2016
  • Co-author, "Life on the margin: US margin rules finalized at last," Journal of Investment Compliance, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2016
  • Co-author, "To Report Or Not To Report: Responding To Boycott Requests," Law360, September 21, 2015
  • Co-author, ''Sink Or Swim? The New Reality of Regulatory Risk in the Energy Markets,'' Pratt's Energy Law Report, LexisNexis
  • Co-author, ''A Practical Examination of the Regulatory Oversight of Energy Marketing & Trading Companies in the United States,'' Energy Law Advisor, Vol. 8, No. 5, November 2014
  • "Hedging Carbon Risks," California Current, Vol.12, No. 18, May 9, 2014

Seminars

  • Panel Moderator, "The Current State & Outlook of the ABS Market," ABS & Fintech Specialty Finance Forum 2025, Opal Group, December 9, 2025
  • Facilitator, "Keynote Fireside Chat: Changing the Game – A conversation about impacting the industry and affecting change," Celebrating Women in Structured Finance Summit, September 26, 2024
  • Moderator, "Track B: Private Credit's Growing Opportunity in IP & Media Rights: Music (Royalties) to Our Ears," DealCatalyst Conference: The Role of Private Markets in Esoteric Asset Finance: U.S., June 10, 2024
  • Speaker, "Navigating the LIBOR Transition," DLA Piper Webinar, July 8, 2020
  • Speaker, "Swap Collateral Documentation and the New Final Margin Regulations for Uncleared Swaps," Strafford Webinar, September 29, 2016
  • Panelist, ''CFTC Proposed Rule for the Cross Border Application of the Margin Requirements,'' The Knowledge Group Webcast, January 22, 2016
  • Presenter, "Your Firm and the ISDA Resolution Stay Protocol," The Knowledge Group Webcast, June 17, 2015
  • Speaker, "Global Derivatives Regulations," ACA Compliance Group Fall 2013 Compliance Conference, October 10, 2013

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Claire worked at several leading law firms in New York, Los Angeles and London.

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Derivatives and Futures Law Committee, American Bar Association
  • 100 Women in Finance
  • Structured Finance Association

My latest insights

Publication

Private Credit Pulse – Q3 2025

10 November 2025 .5 minute read

Past event

ABS East and Private Credit Connect

20 October 2025 .1 minute read

News

DLA Piper’s Claire Hall named to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2025 Power Lawyers: Music list

10 October 2025 .1 minute

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Phone

+1 310 595 3037
(Work, Los Angeles)
+1 310 435 4798
(Work)