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Chris Gavin - Winston Taylor

Chris Gavin

Partner & Co-Chair, Structured Finance and Residential Asset Finance & Securitization Practices, Winston Taylor

Co-Chair of the firm’s Structured Finance and Residential Asset Finance and Securitization Practices, Chris is one of the nation’s leading residential asset finance attorneys, having led a vast array of transactions involving the financing, securitization and whole loan sales of jumbo mortgage loans, closed end second lien mortgages, residential transition loans and mortgage servicing rights.

Throughout his practice, Chris has led transactions that total a principal balance of over a trillion dollars and that have utilized a wide assortment of structured solutions, including:

  • Residential mortgage transactions, including whole loan sales, servicing transfers, repurchase and other warehouse facilities, and term securitizations for newly originated, seasoned and nonperforming loans
  • Advising trustees, servicers and other parties regarding their rights and obligations in legacy residential mortgage transactions
  • Asset-backed securitization and financing transactions
  • Cross-border covered bonds
  • Collateralized commercial paper programs
  • Structured distressed portfolio joint ventures and other solutions
  • The purchase and sale of residential mortgage and other financial services companies, including in developing structured solutions to protect purchasers from certain exposures of the acquired companies
  • Structuring investment vehicles that issue extendable commercial paper, including the working out and resolution of such transactions

Highlights of Chris’ vast experience with novel structured financings also include:

  • Establishing the first collateralized commercial paper program for a major global financial institution
  • Structuring the first cross-border covered bond in Latin America
  • Creating one of the first aggregator residential mortgage securitization programs since the 2008 financial crisis
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