Overview
Kim Ahlgrim is a partner and member of Chapman’s Asset Securitization Department. She represents commercial banks and corporations primarily in asset securitization transactions and structured financings, with a focus in the areas of corporate trust and custody. Kim has significant experience counseling and representing major commercial banks and trust companies in their roles as indenture trustee, back-up servicer, collateral agent, custodian, paying agent and similar capacities in securitization financings involving various asset types, including auto loans, equipment lease receivables, timeshare interests, student loans, commercial loans and mortgage loans.
Representative Matters
- Representation of the indenture trustee, custodian and standby servicer in a $230 million term securitization of auto loans
- Representation of the trustee in a $350 million term securitization of timeshare loans
- Representation of the indenture trustee, custodian and backup servicer in a $151 million term securitization of timeshare loans
- Representation of the trustee and backup servicer in a $81 million securitization of equipment leases and loans
- Representation of the purchaser in the purchase and sale of a $1.4 billion portfolio of student loans
- Representation of the trustee in a $200 million term securitization of marine container lease receivables
- Representation of the backup servicer and collateral custodian in a $250 million structured warehouse facility involving the securitization of commercial loans
- Representation of trustees in connection with securitization workouts and bankruptcies involving mortgage and non-mortgage assets
Practice Focus
- Asset Securitization
- Banking and Financial Services
- Commercial Loans
- Community Development and Charter School Finance
- Corporate Trust and Agency Services
- Equipment Finance Receivables
- Motor Vehicle Loans, Leases, and Floorplan Receivables
- Structured Settlements
- Student Loans and Education Finance
- Timeshare Receivables
- Transportation Assets
- Trustees and Back-Up Servicers
Admitted
Illinois, 1996
Education
University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1996
University of Illinois, M.B.A., 1996
- Beta Gamma Sigma
Illinois State University, B.S., International Business, summa cum laude, 1992
- College of Business Valedictorian