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As counsel to both banks and issuers, Janet understands the business needs driving financial transactions and the relevant legal context that applies to them. This broad outlook enables her to give clients comprehensive advice with the most productive solutions in mind.

Janet assists clients with offered transactions relating to a diverse base of assets, including residential mortgage loans (primarily in the reverse space), servicing advances and synthetic credit risk transfer. She has worked on financings and bilateral transactions across a wide spectrum of structures and assets, including lending facilities. She also understands how to guide clients in sales of MSRs, excess spread and other servicing-related assets. This breadth of experience allows her to help clients act quickly on market opportunities and innovate new structures in response to investor demand. 

Janet displays a strong affinity for pro bono work. She has acted as pro bono counsel through her involvement with the City Bar Justice Center’s clinic at a shelter that serves homeless mothers and children, as well as for no-contest divorces offered to indigent clients of the New York Legal Assistance Group. In addition, she has participated in the Volunteers of Legal Services program to assist incarcerated mothers at Taconic State Prison.