Corporate Transactions and Finance, Commercial Litigation and Nationwide Programs
The Firm has top-level expertise in corporate finance, with a particular emphasis in asset purchases and sales, structured finance and securitizations.
The Corporate Finance Practice is led by Michael Braun, with a team of senior-level associates with multi-dimensional legal backgrounds including securities, complex life and annuity litigation, ERISA and bankruptcy.
Mr. Braun was a partner in the securitization departments at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, McKee Nelson LLP, and Brown and Wood LLP (now known as Sidley Austin LLP). While an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, he was instrumental in the development of Skadden’s structured finance practice in California. He also developed McKee Nelson’s structured finance practice in 2002 with others from Sidley.
Mr. Braun’s 30-year practice involved representing major investment and commercial banks, issuers, loan originators and investors in complex structured finance and other finance transactions. He has served as trust and dealer counsel on single-family and multi-family government-sponsored enterprise (“GSE”) mortgage transactions for GNMA, FNMA, and FHLMC Mr. Braun’s experience also includes repurchase financing and whole loan and other asset purchases.
Mr. Braun’s mortgage securitization experience includes REMIC and non-REMIC securitizations of performing and non-performing residential mortgage loans, as well as closed-end and revolving home equity loans, second lien mortgage loans, reverse mortgages, manufactured housing contracts, small commercial mortgage loans, mixed-use mortgage loans and resecuritizations of private label and GSE collateral.
Another of the firm’s attorneys commenced his legal career as an associate at Skadden where his practice included securitizations ofcredit card, auto loans and other receivable securitizations. He was involved in all aspects of the transactions, from due diligence to closings. He has experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating underwriting agreements as well as primary securitization documents. In connection with these transactions, he managed several securitization closings and is experienced with closing mechanics and necessary ancillary documentation for closings.
The Firm has represented other financial clients in commercial and residential foreclosures and a variety of transactions under the UniformCommercial Code. Our attorneys have successfully represented a number of financial institutions that, as investors in pools of mortgageloans, had disputes relating to the origination and servicing of the underlying assets.