Overview
Madeline focuses her practice on structured finance, asset securitization, and similar complex, fast-paced transactions. She represents financial institutions, specialty finance companies, and mortgage companies as borrowers, lenders, underwriters, and issuers. She drafts and reviews transaction documents, performs due diligence, and facilitates closings. She believes in listening to clients and being responsive to their needs.
Madeline is a member of the firm’s LIBOR Transition Client Service Team and assists clients in transitioning from LIBOR to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR).
Madeline is dedicated to pro bono work and focuses on serving charitable organizations. She works with local community organizations and other non-profits to maintain bylaws and articles of incorporation and on other governance matters.
Experience
- Serves as legal advisor to Ginnie Mae in its government guaranteed multiclass securitization program
- Advises lenders on new model documents implementing alternative rates, including all SOFR variants
- Assists issuers and underwriters on mortgage-backed and asset-backed securitizations
- Assists repo buyers and repo sellers in residential mortgage repurchase facilities
Affiliations
Professional
- Member, Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association
- Member, Structured Finance Association
- Member, Richmond Bar Association
- Member, Virginia Bar Association
- Board Member, Richmond Performing Arts Alliance Associate Board
Insights
Legal Updates
Events & Speaking Engagements
Education
JD, University of Richmond School of Law, magna cum laude, McNeill Law Society, Public Interest Law Review, 2022
BA, University of Virginia, 2017
Admissions
Virginia