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Partner, Co-head of Asset Securitization Group
Business Practice Group
Richmond
(804) 788-8616 Phone
(804) 344-7999 Fax
New York
(212) 309-1370 Phone
(212) 309-1100 Fax
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Asset Securitization
Capital Markets
Real Estate Capital
Markets
Structured Financing
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Mr. Buckley is co-head of Hunton & Williams' Asset Securitization Group and administrative partner of the firm's Corporate Team. His practice focuses on mortgage and asset-backed securitizations, structured financings and other corporate finance transactions. Mr. Buckley is listed as a leading Capital Markets lawyer by Chambers Global and a leading Corporate lawyer by Chambers USA. Mr. Buckley represents issuers, underwriters, trustees, master servicers, insurers and other participants in public and private securities offerings, securitizations and other capital markets transactions. He also represents various financial institutions in connection with structured financings and bankruptcy, insolvency and workout matters.
Relevant Experience 
- Issuer's counsel for public and private offerings of more than $1 trillion of mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities.
- Acted as issuer's counsel in connection with securitization transactions involving unique asset types and innovative securities structures, including the first public securitization of reperforming FHA and VA loans and the first full faith and credit U.S. government-guaranteed REMIC program.
- Served as issuer's counsel in the design and implementation of securitization programs for regulated financial institutions and other issuers of mortgage-backed securities involving various loan types, including residential and commercial mortgage loans, home equity loans, high LTV loans, home improvement loans, FHA Title I loans, manufactured housing contracts and nonperforming and reperforming government-insured loans.
- Represents real estate investment trusts (REITs) in connection with various finance transactions, including mortgage securitizations.
- Counsels financial institution clients in regards to implementation and compliance with various financial and mortgage market recovery programs, including the TARP, TALF, PPIP and HAMP programs.
- Represented the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in designing its VA Vendee Loan Securitization Program, the first REMIC mortgage-backed securities program to include a full faith and credit guaranty of the United States.
- Designed and implemented the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) guaranteed REMIC program to securitize Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities.
- Represents issuers, underwriters, master servicers, trustees, financial guaranty insurers, securities administrators and other participants in connection with asset securitization matters and structured financings.
- Represents financial institutions, including securitization trustees and master servicers, in bankruptcy, receivership and workout matters involving securitized assets and structured financings.
Additional Experience
Leadership Council, Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium Chairman, Diocesan School Board, Catholic Diocese of Richmond, 1986-1992 Director, Haitian Education Fund, 2002-2004 Director, Concilium for Education, 1992-1994
Membership
- Virginia State Bar
- New York State Bar
- American Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association, and New York State Bar Association
Awards and Professional Recognition
- Chambers Awards for Excellence - Capital Markets (one of ten nominees for national award), 2006
- Chambers Global (Capital Markets: Securitisation)
- Chambers U.S.A. America's Leading Business Lawyers (National - Capital Markets/Securitization) (Virginia - Corporate/M&A)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Structured Finance)
- The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Law Business Research, Ltd.
- Listed in "Virginia Super Lawyers"
- National Catholic Educational Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education, 1992
- Concilium for Education Award as Catholic School Board Member of the Year, 1992
Education - J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, cum laude, Editor, Washington and Lee Law Review, 1985
- B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1979
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