Peter S. Morgan
Partner
Co-Chair, Structured Finance & Co-Chair, Esoteric Finance Practices
Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s Structured Finance and Esoteric Finance Practices, Pete advises clients in connection with warehouse financings, lease arrangements, senior secured transactions, second-lien financings, mezzanine financings, and high-yield debt issuances, and structuring private equity transactions and highly structured funds.
Pete focuses his practice in the areas of leasing, lending, structured finance, private equity and fund formation. He represents insurers, underwriters, placement agents, investors, banks, issuers, and borrowers in public and private securitizations and securitization-style warehouse financings. He also represents lessors, lessees, owner participants, and arrangers in lease arrangements. Pete represents leasing, specialty finance companies, and corporate creditors, as well as banks and funds in senior secured transactions, second-lien financings, mezzanine financings, and high-yield debt issuances. His practice also includes representing management teams, investment funds, investors, and financial institutions in structuring private equity transactions and highly structured funds. Pete’s representation in such transactions has involved a variety of assets, such as: leases; loans; receivables (including timeshare, merchant advances, marketplace lending, trade, PACE, structured settlement, lottery, health care and intellectual property receivables); catastrophe bonds; life settlement policies financing; and equipment and operating assets (including vehicles, railcars, aircraft and vessels).
Recent Experience
- The Legal 500 US—
- Recognized for Structured Finance: Securitization (2018–2024), “Key Lawyer” (2024)
- Recognized for Transport: Aviation and Air Travel - Finance (2021–2023)
- Recognized for Asset Finance and Leasing (2014)
- C-Pace Alliance, Facilitating Transactions—“National Award” (2019)
Pete is a member of Winston’s Executive Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of the Structured Finance Coalition (SFC), the board of directors of PACENation, and the transportation editorial board of Law360. He participates in various industry organizations, including the Structured Finance Association (SFA), American Securitization Forum (ASF), Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA), and C-Pace Alliance. In addition, Pete is a member of the leadership board at Hofstra Law, his alma mater.
Recent Experience
Credentials
Education
Pete received a B.S. in Accounting from New York University in 1994, and a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1997, where he was editor of the Hofstra Law & Policy Symposium.
Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
Related Insights & News
Pete frequently participates as a speaker for various organizations and firm-sponsored events and is often published and quoted in industry periodicals.
- Panelist, "Underwriting & Legal - Managing Delinquencies During a Crisis," PACENation, Virtual, June 2021
- Panelist, "Underwriting & Legal - Interparty Issues in a Financing," PACENation, Virtual, June 2021
- Panelist, "C-PACE Momentum: Securitizations & Acquisitions," PACENation, Virtual, June 2021
- Panelist, "C-PACE Underwriting for Ratings and Securitization," PACENation, Denver, April 2019
- Panelist, "Hot Topics - C-PACE Securitization," PACENation, Denver, March 2018
- Panelist, "Commercial and Residential PACE," SFIG Vegas, Las Vegas, February 2018
- Panelist, "Pace Securitization," PACENation, Denver, February 2017
- Moderator, “Aircraft,” IMN ABS East Conference, Miami, September 2016
- “Trends in Securitization,” 2014 Legal Forum of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, Ft. Worth, Texas, May 2014
- “Trends in Securitization,” 2014 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP CLE Marathon, New York, February 2014
- “U.S. Container and Rail ABS Issuance,” IMN’s ABS Vegas 2014, Las Vegas, January 2014
- “Trends in Leasing,” 2013 Legal Forum of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, Charleston, S.C., May 2013
- "Current Issues in Distressed Assets," Thacher Proffitt's Distressed Buyers and Sellers Seminar, New York, July 2008
- "The Intersection of Private Equity and Equipment Finance," 2008 Legal Forum of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, Chicago, May 2008
- "Opportunities in Distressed Assets," Thacher Proffitt Legal Update Seminar, New York, May 2008
- "Alternate Investments for Equipment Finance," Thacher Proffitt and Bloomberg Host the Navigating Equipment Finance Through Turbulent Waters Seminar, New York, April 2008
- "Current Trends in Aviation Finance," Aircraft Finance Conference, Chicago, June 2001
- "Workouts in ABS Deals," ABS West, Phoenix, Ariz., February 2001
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