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Mr Chris Gavin

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+1 212-294-1725 cgavin@winston.com

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Finance

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Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s Structured Finance Practice, Chris Gavin represents issuers, borrowers, sellers, buyers, lenders, official lenders, hedge funds, private equity funds and other investors in U.S. and international structured finance transactions.

The transactions undertaken by Chris total in principal balance over a trillion dollars and have a footprint spanning North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Chris represents and advises clients in a range of cross-border transactions and structured solutions involving:

  • 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

In his counsel to a major industry group, Chris represented them on a significant comment letter on the reproposed risk retention rules. Highlights of his 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 recent financial crisis, and developing a microfinance lending facility for fund activities in Uganda, Tanzania, and South Sudan.

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United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization

Winston & Strawn LLP‘s structured finance practice has strength in a number of niche market fields, resulting in the team being a key point of contact for many clients looking for focused, experienced expertise. The group demonstrate expertise in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds and residential and commercial projects, and also provide counsel to market lending platforms regarding formation, regulatory compliance and portfolio securitization. Furthermore, the practice is extremely knowledgeable of transportation finance issues and assets, including aircraft engines, railroad rolling stock and land-based fleets. Francisco Flores and Chris Gavin, who joined the firm from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in March 2023, co-head the practice from Los Angeles and New York respectively, with the former focusing on automobile leases, commercial and residential mortgages and solar energy receivables, and the latter on CLOs and esoteric asset finance and securitization. Chicago’s Nolan Bolduc is active in matters regarding secured and unsecured credit facilities and works alongside Michael Mullins who regularly counsels alternative asset managers, captive finance companies and hedge funds. Eunice Chay is active on a range of matters from the Los Angeles office, including the firm’s leading PACE financing work.

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