kay: led speechlys teamSpeechly Bircham has secured the latest in a string of major finance roles from specialist investment house Wharton Asset Management, with the firm acting on a $1.5bn (£800m) securitisation opposite sector leader Ashurst.

The deal, the fourth collateralised debt obligation (CDO) Speechlys has handled for Wharton in the past 12 months, saw Wharton issue four tranches of bonds through a special purpose vehicle to fund the $1.5bn acquisition of an asset-backed securities portfolio.