Practice focuses on a wide variety of financings, including asset-backed financings structured as debt, pass-through and participation certificates involving credit card and consumer loan receivables, as well as home equity loans and traditional residential first mortgage loans. She has experience representing issuers and underwriters in securitizations in rent-a-shelf and conduit formats. She has assisted investment banking firms in developing the documentation to establish flow purchase programs for loans to be securitized, as well as the program documentation for the securitization.
With over 20 years' experience as a financing lawyer, his practice focuses on structured finance and securitization transactions. He has handled both innovative structured finance deals involving unusual asset classes as well as securitizations and bond financings involving a wide range of more traditional assets.
He regularly represents issuers, investors, underwriters, credit enhancers and other financiers of securitized debt. His representative investment banking and insurance clients over the last ten years have included Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers, Crédit Suisse First Boston, MBIA Insurance Corp., Salomon Smith Barney, Enhance Financial Services Group Inc., Asset Guaranty Insurance Co., ING Barings, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Bear, Stearns and Gruntal & Co. In addition, he has represented many of the most innovative specialty finance companies in the asset-backed finance business.
As part of his practice, he has worked on many groundbreaking transactions including what are believed to be the first U.S. whole company securitization involving intellectual property, first cash flow secured franchise loan securitization, the first rated time share loan securitization, the first telecom receivables commercial paper conduit, the first structured settlement conduit program, and the first fully effective SEC registered offering of pass-through certificates in a pool of secondary market municipal bonds, as well as many early and innovative equipment lease and medical receivables securitizations. In addition, He has regularly represented established clients in connection with more conventional asset classes such as trade receivables, auto loans and leases, home equity loans, mutual fund fees and credit cards.
He has also been an active participant in the commercial mortgage-backed securities market since as early as 1985. He has worked on a full range of transactions including Regulation S and Rule 144A transactions, public offerings and commercial paper conduits for assets such as hotels, office buildings, multi-family housing, golf courses, restaurants and shopping centers. He has acted on behalf of borrowers as well as lenders in these transactions.
Representation of sellers, underwriters, issuers, portfolio purchasers, servicers, credit enhancers and trustees in public and private securitizations and structured financings (including commercial mortgage, home equity, recreational vehicle, marine and equipment finance securitizations).
Representation of parties to swap, cap, option and other derivative products transactions (including credit derivative and synthetic CLO transactions).
She is also experienced in a broad range of securities and commercial transactions, including private and public offerings of equity and debt, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial loan origination. She has represented underwriters in initial public and secondary offerings, issuers in Rule 144A offerings, and issuers and investors in private placements of securities. Her experience in commercial transactions includes representing lenders in general loan origination documentation and procedures and representing banks and borrowers in connection with syndicated credit facilities.
He represents investment firms, insurance companies, pension funds and banks in connection with the establishment of commercial real estate lending facilities. He has advised investment firms in connection with offerings of commercial mortgage-backed securities. He also has represented institutional real estate lenders and borrowers in workouts and restructurings, and has significant construction lending experience.
He has participated in transactions involving many asset types, including residential and commercial mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, high yield bonds, bank loans, auto and truck loans, trade receivables, lease receivables, credit card receivables, perpetual floating rate notes, and other assets in a variety of structures with a particular emphasis in recent years on CBOs and CLOs and commercial mortgage-backed securities. Since becoming involved in the area, He has been an active participant in a number of novel transactions and in the development of innovative structures for existing and new asset types. He has lectured and participated in panels on relevant topics, including CBOs and CLOs and international real estate securitizations.
He advises issuers, underwriters and agents involved in all types of structured finance transactions. He represents registered and non-registered domestic and foreign investment advisers as well as sponsors and advisors of offshore funds investing in mortgage and other asset-backed securities. He also represents sponsors and credit providers in connection with commercial paper conduit programs.
He has structured transactions involving underlying assets such as prime and subprime residential mortgage loans, including sub-performing, reperforming and non-performing loans; home equity lines of credit; auto, boat and recreational vehicle receivables; credit card receivables; student loans; manufactured housing contracts; multifamily loans and agricultural loans. These transactions have utilized virtually every tax and cashflow structure and form of credit enhancement, including certain derivatives.
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