Introduction
The asset-backed market has grown to become one of the largest capital markets in the world in terms of size and volume. Since 1998, companies have increasingly often used whole–business securitization to refinance whole lines of businesses that frequently form a substantial portion of the assets of the parent company. In one year’s time, both the Dunkin Brands transaction (May 2006) and the Domino’s Pizza deal (April 2007) pushed about $3.5 billion of asset-backed papers onto the market. Transactions in this asset class have primarily focused on the intellectual property arena, including fast food, licensing, music, and film…



