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Our structured finance group is widely recognized as a leader, encompassing Esoteric Finance, Residential Asset Finance and Securitization, and CLOs/Fund Finance. Positioned prominently at the forefront of the industry, our team boasts extensive experience across a broad spectrum of assets, with a particular focus on bespoke structures and emerging and/or “esoteric” assets, including residential and commercial PACE, RMBS, and CMBS; aircraft, vessel, and railcar finance; FinTech and marketplace lending; CLOs; specialty finance; consumer and business lending; energy structured finance (including solar finance and reserve-based finance); derivatives and structured products; lease and operating asset finance; trade receivables; litigation settlement financing; and life settlements.
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Keeping a deal moving forward can be challenging. Our 100+ Finance attorneys help clients maintain momentum with a commitment to understanding the challenges, risks, and opportunities they face. Our team has developed great insights through the representation of financial institutions and corporate enterprises of all types and sizes in the finance industry. We have a well-rounded finance practice, with dedicated teams that advise banks, credit funds, alternative capital providers, sponsors, and corporations on a wide range of transactions including debt finance (leveraged, asset-based, and reserve-based lending), fund finance, structured finance, derivatives and structured products, project finance, and transportation finance.
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We advise clients that originate, manage, and invest in broadly syndicated and middle-market corporate loans with their fund formation and capital markets fund-financing activities. Our experience includes structure and formation of CLOs, registered funds, hedge funds, listed funds, private credit funds, managed accounts, synthetic funds, SBICs, and onshore and offshore special purpose investment vehicles. Our experience spans the complete spectrum of services, including warehouse, leverage, and subscription facilities and ongoing portfolio support. Our Capital Markets Practice has extensive experience in debt and equity offerings, spin-offs, split-offs, and carve-outs, as well as securities compliance and corporate governance.
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|December 18, 2020
Basis Investment Group's US$101M Joint Venture with a Major Sovereign Wealth Fund
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Basis Investment Group, LLC, as managing member and investment manager, in a joint venture with a major sovereign wealth fund for the purpose of making equity or debt investments (i) collateralized by commercial or multifamily real estate, (ii) structured as (a) bridge loans with an A Note syndication exit, (b) mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments, inclusive of development transactions and structured equity investments with enhanced returns (e.g., equity kickers), (c) acquisition of distressed debt and loan portfolios, (d) acquisition of CMBS and agency bonds and B-Pieces or (e) or other types of securities, and (iii) with a principal balance between US$10M and US$50M. The joint venture will primarily focus on investments in the middle market throughout the United States.
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Press Release
|December 16, 2020
|4 Min Read
Winston & Strawn Names 11 New U.S. Partners
Diverse Class Underscores Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion, Effectiveness of Executive-Led Associate Mentoring Program
Client Alert
|April 7, 2020
|5 Min Read
CMBS Litigation Redux: The First COVID Crisis Claims
On March 25, 2020, affiliates of AG Mortgage Investment Trust—a publicly traded mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT)— sued Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) for breach of contract, challenging margin calls by RBC that plaintiffs claim were based on an erroneous valuation of a portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction blocking the auction of those assets into a “frozen” market.[1] While the complaint names only RBC and an affiliate as defendants (and suggests that most banks have exercised forbearance in light of the COVID-19 crisis), it alleges that certain “other banks have [also] taken advantage of” market illiquidity “by applying opportunistic (and unfounded) markdowns . . . in order to trigger widespread margin calls against their counterparties” and warns that RBC’s actions could “precipitate a chain reaction” and “jeopardize the viability of the entire mREIT industry . . . .”
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|July 26, 2016
Jeffrey Stern Discusses Current Issues in Structured Finance at NYC Bar Program
Structured Finance Practice Co-chair Jeffrey Stern spoke at the New York City Bar’s program “Current Issues in Structured Finance” on July 26. The panel, consisting of members of the Structured Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, discussed current issues and recent regulatory developments affecting the structured finance industry, as well as recent developments relating to specific sectors of the securitization market (e.g., marketplace loans, CMBS, CLOs, and more). Specifically, Mr. Stern addressed risk retention issues in CLOs. Other topics included securitization in China, blockchain and structured finance, mandatory arbitration, marketplace loans, and CMBS.
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Winston & Strawn’s Brussels office further establishes our preeminent EU antitrust/competition practice at the epicenter of European competition law. The office is located on the famous Rue de la Loi or Wetstraat, which connects the Belgium Federal Parliament with the European Commission headquarters—the Berlaymont—and the Justus Lipsius, home to the Council of the European Union.
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Located in Lujiazui, the center of this major financial hub of China, Winston’s Shanghai office consists of foreign-qualified attorneys who have studied and practiced Chinese law, and who excel at bridging the gap between Western and Chinese legal concepts as well as cultural and commercial differences.
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Opened in 2017, Winston & Strawn’s Dallas office is located in the cultural and economic epicenter of DFW, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and the fastest growing over the last year. Our Dallas attorneys litigate both high-stakes civil and criminal matters, including major state and federal trials and appeals nationwide, and represents clients in complex transactional matters. Under the leadership of Bryan Goolsby and Thomas M. Melsheimer, our office—made up of 85+ attorneys—continues to expand, attracting some of the country’s top legal talent to meet the increased needs of the many technology, investment, and health care companies that are increasingly making Dallas their home.