Mortgage & Structured Finance
The Mortgage & Structured Finance practice is one of very few practices in the country with substantial whole loan and servicing rights acquisition, sale, and financing experience, as well as experience in counseling clients in the mortgage market regarding the purchase, sale, or financing of businesses having significant mortgage portfolios. Whether your firm is an investment advisor, a mortgage originator or servicer, or a private equity fund, we will advance your business strategy by leveraging our experience with thousands of mortgage market transactions.
Our group advises clients on cradle-to-grave activities, including mortgage business launches, acquisitions, expansions, innovations, and dispositions. We help clients acquire mortgage companies and their assets, then purchase, finance, sell, and securitize those and other assets before helping them exit into the public or private markets via sale of the companies they have successfully grown. Our suite of counseling services includes creating conduit programs for acquisition and disposition, as well as assisting in term and permanent debt facilities. We also structure, negotiate, and document servicing, outsourcing, and subservicing arrangements.
Whether working with investment vehicles or private equity funds seeking to acquire assets or platforms, traders on a financial institution's trading desk, or entrepreneurs building a new asset platform from scratch, our practice employs a unique mix of expediency, skill, and cost efficiency. We are well-regarded for our negotiating ability; we treat our clients' counterparties as their clients. We understand the upswings and downturns of the mortgage banking, real estate, and finance markets; the laws regulating those markets; and the influence these combined forces have on our clients' business goals and financial returns.
In addition to transactional work, the Mortgage & Structured Finance group has teamed with our Capital Markets Litigation practice to form a Securitization and Structured Products Litigation Platform that represents major institutional market participants worldwide in waterfall disputes, repurchase claims and remediation efforts, fraud actions and investigations, and other securities litigation-related matters. We also work closely with the firm's Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors' Rights practice to assist in workouts and acquisitions of distressed mortgage companies, including troubled subprime lenders, and their portfolios.
