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Partner
Business Practice Group
Richmond
(804) 788-7388 Phone
(804) 344-7999 Fax
New York
(212) 309-1369 Phone
(212) 309-1100 Fax
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Asset Securitization
Capital Markets
CDOs and Synthetic
Structures
Commercial Paper
Programs
Derivatives
Hotel REIT Practice
Mortgage REIT
Practice
Real Estate Capital
Markets
Structured Financing
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Practice focuses on asset securitization, real estate investment trusts, pooled sales and other capital markets transactions. Experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting securitizations of mortgage loans and other assets, collateralized debt obligations, and representing real estate investment trusts in connection with equity offerings and securitized debt financings. Advises specialty finance companies about exemptions from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Relevant Experience 
- Represents issuers, underwriters, servicers and trustees in securitizations of virtually all mortgage loan types, including residential mortgages (first and junior liens), home equity loans, high LTV loans, home improvement loans, FHA Title I loans, manufactured housing contracts, nonperforming and reperforming government-insured loans and commercial mortgage loans.
- Represents issuers, collateral managers and investment banks in offerings of collateralized debt obligations, including synthetic CDOs.
- Represents bank-sponsored asset-backed commercial paper conduits in transactions involving trade receivables, credit card receivables, mortgage loans and equipment leases, and in ABCP programs.
- Represents companies in connection with sales of receivables, insurance products, commercial mortgage loans, privately placed securities and other assets to ABCP conduits.
- Advises specialty finance companies, including mortgage REITS, in structuring investments to remain exempt from regulation as investment companies under the 1940 Act.
- Represents investment banks, commercial banks, insurance companies and mortgage companies in pooled sales and purchases of residential and commercial mortgage loans.
- Represents mortgage companies and financial institutions in acquisitions of portfolios of servicing rights and in negotiation and drafting of servicing contracts.
- Represented Ginnie Mae in the development of its government guaranteed multiclass securities program, and regularly represents Ginnie Mae in the issuance of securities pursuant to the program and in enhancements to the program.
- Represents issuers in public and private resecuritizations of MBS, including B-pieces and REMIC residual securities.
- Represented finance company in acquisition of portfolios of REMIC residual securities.
- Represented underwriters in private placements, initial public offerings and follow-on offerings of real estate investment trusts.
- Represented real estate investment trust in initial public offering and as general counsel.
- Represented a major U.S. investment bank in connection with development of its commercial mortgage loan conduit program.
- Represented REIT clients on securitized debt transactions.
- Formed and advised foreign and domestic equity funds and hedge funds.
- Serves as pro bono general counsel to non-profit foundation.
Additional Experience
- Co-chair, Diversity Committee, Hunton & Williams
- Chair, Ethics in Marketing Committee, Hunton & Williams
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar, New York State Bar, American Bar Association
- Former Chair, Subcommittee on Structured Financings, Federal Regulation of Securities, ABA Business Law Section
- Member, Regulation AB Implementation Task Force, Asset Securitization Forum
- Former Chair, Committee on Developments in Business Financing, ABA Business Law Section
- Former Chair, Committee on Securitization and REITs, ABA Real Property Section
Pro Bono Work
- Pro bono general counsel and President, Maymont Foundation
Education - J.D., Cornell Law School, magna cum laude, Senior Note Editor, Cornell Law Review, 1990
- A.B., Duke University, cum laude, English, 1985
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Amy Williams
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