Michael Mullins
Partner
Co-Chair, Finance Practice
Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s Finance Practice, Michael has extensive experience advising asset managers, banks, and investment funds in connection with a wide range of financing transactions.
Michael has a broad-ranging corporate finance practice, focusing primarily on commercial financings, fund finance, CLOs, warehouse/leverage facilities, and structured finance products. He represents asset managers, banks, and investment funds in connection with a wide range of financing transactions. Michael also regularly represents issuers, investment banks, collateral managers, investment funds, and institutional investors in structured finance and debt transactions at all levels of the capital structure, with particular emphasis in transactions involving alternative asset managers, regulated and unregulated funds, and private credit funds.
His practice includes the representation of asset managers, institutional investors, and issuers in structuring, formation, and ongoing compliance issues regarding onshore and offshore investment funds, collateralized loan obligations, and other structured finance products.
Recent Experience
- Chambers Global, Capital Markets: Securitization: CLOs—USA (2022–2025)
- Chambers USA, Capital Markets: Securitization: CLOs—Nationwide (2021–2024) and Banking and Finance—Illinois (2023–2024)
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Banking and Finance Law (2020, 2021)
- IFLR1000, Highly Regarded in Banking, Capital Markets: Debt (2020)
- The Legal 500 US, Finance: Commercial Lending (2024)
- The Legal 500 US, Structured Finance: Securitization, Recommended (2018–2021), “Key Lawyer” (2023–2024)
Michael is Co-Chair of Winston’s Finance Practice, a member of the Compensation Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee. He previously served as a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee and Associate Evaluation Committee.
Recent Experience
Credentials
Education
Michael received a B.S., magna cum laude, in Accounting from Marquette University in 1994 and a J.D., with honors, from the DePaul University College of Law in 1997, where he was an editor of the DePaul Law Review.
Admissions
- Illinois
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Speaking Engagements
Michael frequently participates as a speaker on loan and capital markets topics for various trade organizations and firm-sponsored events.
Publications
- “Financing the Middle Market: Growth and Evolution,” The Journal of Structured Finance, Fall 2019
- “Risk Retention: Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water,” Law Journal Equipment Leasing Newsletter, June 2010
- “The Rebirth of the Securitization Market,” The Deal, August 2009