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North Lakes Legal focuses on bridging traditional asset finance experience with evolving 
decentralized finance 

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Christian Petersen

Principal

Christian Petersen, principal at North Lakes Legal, brings 25 years years of international finance and transactional experience to the decentralized finance space.

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In support of MakerDAO, Christian structured and executed several of the most high profile financings of real world assets utilizing decentralized finance.

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BlockTower Credit, a 150 million DAI facility utilizing the Centrifuge "Tinlake" protocol

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Huntingdon Valley Bank, a $100 million loan participation structure with funding provided by MakerDAO

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Societe General Forge, a 30 million DAI vault collateralized by tokenized French covered bonds (OFH token)

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Centrifuge, development of Indenture Trust Structure for use with MakerDAO

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Monetalis, a 500 million DAI facility to acquire iShares US$ Treasury Bond 0-1 yr ETF and the iShares US$ Treasury Bond 1-3 yr ETF

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His wide-ranging geographic and transactional experience provides a diverse wealth of knowledge and know-how to support the adoption of real world assets in the decentralized finance space.

Leadership 

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Co-authored - Real World Finance: Decision-Making and Delegated Committee Proposal at https://forum.makerdao.com/t/real-world-finance-decision-making-and-delegated-committee-proposal/15276/39

Co-authored -
Methodology for Review of MIP6 Structured Finance Transactions at https://forum.makerdao.com/t/methodology-for-review-of-mip6-structured-finance-transactions/12697 

Co-authored -
RWF Collateral Risk Level at https://forum.makerdao.com/t/informal-poll-rwf-collateral-risk-level/12254

Authored - MIP6c-3-SP1: (RWA Only)
Supplement to Collateral Onboarding Application at https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mip6c3-sp1-rwa-only-supplement-to-collateral-onboarding-application/10433

Authored -
Real World Assets Legal Structures - A Comparison at https://forum.makerdao.com/t/real-world-asset-legal-structures-a-comparison/9877

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Contributor - Centrifuge Update: Cornerstone Agreement Complete to Onboard RWAs to Maker with Centrifuge at https://forum.makerdao.com/t/centrifuge-update-cornerstone-agreement-complete-to-onboard-rwas-to-maker-with-centrifuge-successful-collaboration-with-incubating-lts/15005

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