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Jonathan C. Wishnia is an associate in the firm's Corporate Department and a member of the Mortgage Banking & Finance Group. Mr. Wishnia’s practice focuses on the representation of clients in connection with the trading, financing, restructuring and litigating of mortgage loan and servicing rights pools, non-mortgage receivables, securitization transactions and derivatives matters, including on behalf of bondholders involved in the structured finance and derivatives markets.
Mr. Wishnia’s counsel to servicers, originators, portfolio owners, master servicers, bond administrators, sponsors, underwriters and bondholders has included advice relating to performing, non-performing and re-performing forward mortgage loans, home equity loans, bi-national loans, reverse mortgage loans, small balance commercial loans, business loans, students loans and consumer receivables, as well as MBS, ABS and CDO transactions backed by the same. Mr. Wishnia also has extensive experience counseling clients on the implementation of, and ongoing compliance with, Regulation AB. Additionally, Mr. Wishnia has counseled clients in the documentation, utilization and trading of derivative instruments, including credit default swaps, as individual transactions and in connection with other finance activities. His range of experience includes providing corporate forensic legal services in connection with structured finance and derivatives litigation.
Mr. Wishnia also counsels clients on general corporate and finance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, secured and unsecured credit facilities and other corporate transactions. His clients have included investment and commercial banks, fund organizations and portfolio companies, consulting firms, financial institutions, broker/dealers, mortgage companies and nonprofit foundations.
Speaking Engagements:
- "Regulation AB: Why Am I Still Confused?," Lowenstein University (CL-110), 2007 - present
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Jonathan Wishnia is noted for providing U.S. law counsel to Credit Suisse First Boston, S.A. de C.V., in connection with GMAC Financiera, S.A. de C.V., Sociedad Financiera de Objecto Limitado’s mortgage-backed securitization.,
www.lawfuel.com, March 2003
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New York University School of Law
(J.D., 2002),
Executive Board Member, Journal of International Law & Politics
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
(B.B.A., 1999),
Initiate, Iron Cross Honor Society
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New Jersey
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New York
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2003,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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- Member, American Securitization Forum, Forms Repurchase Task Force, 2008 - present
- Member, Lowenstein Sandler Mortgage Crisis Response Working Group, 2008 - present
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