2024 Sponsors

Latham & Watkins' Structured Finance and Securitization practice comprises more 130 attorneys globally, spanning 18 offices and 11 countries. The practice represents a wide range of funds, private equity sponsors, banks, insurers, and corporate originators on the most sophisticated transactions across the globe and in key financial centres, providing cohesive, multi-jurisdictional legal counsel on all of the commercial, regulatory, insolvency, and tax law aspects of securitization and other structured finance products. Our integrated team collaborates across our global platform to help clients structure and execute transactions at the cutting edge of market practice. The team handles a variety of public and private securitizations, structures, and asset classes, including cash and synthetic CLOs, whole business securitizations, RMBS, CMBS, auto ABS, and consumer loan ABS. Latham lawyers regularly advise on both European and US transactions, including with respect to risk retention, disclosure, credit granting, and regulatory capital requirements. Additionally, the group has significant expertise across a range of emerging and niche asset classes, including aircraft loans and leases, shipping, dealer and floor plan financing, commercial and SME loans, equipment leases, franchise receivables, distressed investments, insurance-related assets, music and publishing royalties, pharmacy and health care receivables, solar assets, trade receivables, and P2P receivables. The team's experience encompasses a broad spectrum of industries, such as real estate, sports, infrastructure, entertainment, insurance, and fintech.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is a national law firm with over 350 lawyers working from five offices in New York, Palo Alto, New Jersey, Utah, and Washington, D.C. Our Mortgage & Structured Finance practice is one of the very few practices in the country with substantial whole loan and servicing rights acquisition, sale and financing experience as well as expertise in counseling clients in the mortgage market relating to the purchase, sale, or financing of businesses having significant mortgage portfolios. Whether your firm is an investment advisor, a mortgage originator or servicer, or a private equity fund, we will advance your business strategy by leveraging our experience with thousands of mortgage market transactions. Our group advises clients on cradle-to-grave activities, including mortgage business launches, acquisitions, expansions, innovations, and dispositions. We help clients acquire mortgage companies and their assets, then purchase, finance, sell, and securitize those and other assets before helping them exit into the public or private markets via sale of the companies they have successfully grown. Our suite of counseling services includes creating conduit programs for acquisition and disposition, as well as assisting in term and permanent debt facilities. We also structure, negotiate, and document servicing, outsourcing, and subservicing arrangements.