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- Routinely provide advice to bank and financial institution boards of directors regarding regulatory, acquisition, transaction and litigation matters.
- Built capital markets, secondary marketing, balance sheet management and treasury management departments from scratch at various financial institutions including counterparty agreements, vendor agreements, legal, risk and compliance requirements and policies and procedures.
- Navigated a holding company and bank in formation through federal bank charter application processes and led a reverse merger with a publicly traded bank holding company which included an $890 million capital raise as well as multiple material transactions with simultaneous closings.
- Negotiated and advised multiple financial institutions on whole loan purchase and sale agreements and mortgage servicing rights purchase and sale agreements.
- Advised and documented bank regarding warehouse finance repurchase facility, mortgage servicing rights facility, and mortgage servicing rights follow-on facility.
- Provided compliance, legal and risk advice for banks and financial institutions.
- Advised and documented a bank’s purchase of a $2.41B commercial real estate lending entity.
- Advised and documented a bank’s sale of $358.5M commercial loans.
- Advised banks and other financial institutions regarding compliance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
- Advised and documented bank on liquidation of nine CMBS trusts and immediate sale of the underlying commercial loans.
- Advised bank regarding non-deliverable foreign currency class action lawsuit.
- Advised bank regarding residential mortgage loan add on product class action lawsuit.
- Advised and documented bank on purchase of $550M pool of residential mortgage loans.
- Advised and documented bank on purchase of $300M of commercial real estate loan.
- Documented commercial loan transactions on behalf of banks, credit unions and financial institutions.
- Negotiated and document sale of financial institutions’ mortgage servicing rights.
- Negotiated and document sale of correspondent lending channel.
- Negotiated and document subservicer agreement on behalf of financial institution.
- Created and drafted bank policies and procedures for various departments.
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Credentials
Education
- Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 2004
- Stetson University, M.B.A., 2004
- University of Illinois, B.S., Management Information Systems, 2001
Courts
- Connecticut State Courts
- Florida State Courts
- Georgia State Courts
- Illinois State Courts
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
Bar Admissions
- Connecticut, 2021
- Florida, 2005
- Georgia, 2008
- Illinois, 2008