
Jose M. Rodriguez
Associate
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Jose focuses his practice on a wide range of finance and corporate transactions, with an emphasis on structured finance, acquisition finance, debt finance, private equity and M&A.
Associate
Jose focuses his practice on a wide range of finance and corporate transactions, with an emphasis on structured finance, acquisition finance, debt finance, private equity and M&A.
Jose is an associate in the Chicago office. He primarily focuses his practice on corporate and finance transactions for private equity sponsors, founders/owners/CEOs of private businesses, public company clients, investment banks and other financial institutions in connection with acquisitions, capital-raising ventures, entity formation matters, divestitures, warehouse/leverage facilities, fund finance, CLOs, secured and unsecured credit facilities, securitizations (residential mortgage loan securitizations, recurring revenue securitizations and other asset classes), and recapitalizations. Jose also represents financial institutions and other market participants in their roles as issuers, underwriters, servicers and sellers in both public and private offerings of asset-backed securitization transactions, including those involving residential mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights. Clients appreciate his vast interconnected professional network which allows him to better protect their long-term interests and goals.
Prior to joining Winston, Jose worked at Goldman Sachs & Co., Duke Wealth Management, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., and served as a legal extern for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Chicago regional office followed by the Atlanta regional office.
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Jose received his J.D. in 2022 from Emory University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the, - Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal (Vol.38) and President of the Tax Law Society. He received his B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy and, Law & Legal Reasoning from Southern Methodist University in 2019.