Robert S. Olin

Robert B. Olin is a Partner and member of Dentons' Capital Markets practice. His primary practice area is Capital Markets Law, and he represents issuers and underwriters in offerings of residential mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.

He is ranked globally and in the US for Securitization: RMBS by Chambers (2023–2026), with sources praising him as "commercially savvy" and "an expert" in the industry. He assists clients in pass-through and debt, on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet transactions, with a variety of structures and credit enhancement features, backed by prime, QM, non-QM, agency investor, RTL, second lien, new origination, seasoned and reperforming residential mortgage loans and HEI contracts. He also assists sellers and purchasers in connection with the sale, servicing and purchase of whole loan mortgages.

In addition, he represents financial institutions in transactions relating to the issuance of securities backed by student loans, consumer loans and servicing rights, the purchase and sale of student loans and consumer loans, the securitisation of litigation funding and medical receivables, and transactions relating to the aggregation and financing of residential mortgage loans, student loans, consumer loans, litigation funding, medical receivables and probate receivables. He is also the head of the Capital Markets opinion committee.

His notable experience includes representing Morgan Stanley on its securitisation platform, including transactions backed by prime, QM, non-QM, agency investor, reperforming and seasoned performing loans, and helping develop a platform for "re-lever" transactions backed by seasoned performing mortgage loans. He represented Ascent Funding, LLC as sponsor in connection with its first broadly marketed rated securitisation of career consumer loans, which included a novel prefunding feature and reinvestment feature for cancelled loans. He also advised Libra Solutions (formerly Oasis Financial) in establishing a securitisation platform for litigation funding receivables and medical lien receivables, leading the deal team on nine rated securitisations and four rated asset-based loan financings.

His recognition includes being ranked Nationwide for Securitization: RMBS in Chambers USA (2023–2026), ranked in the USA for Capital Markets: Securitisation: RMBS in Chambers Global (2024–2026), recognised as a Recognized Lawyer for Structured Finance: Securitization in The Legal 500 US (2020–2026), and ranked Highly Regarded in New York and United States (National) for Structured Finance and Securitisation in IFLR1000 (2022–2026).

He holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School (1997), where he was a contributing editor of the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and an AB from Brown University (1993).