Alston & Bird LLP

A pioneer in the single-family-rental structured finance asset class, Steve provides counsel to a wide variety of clients, assisting them with structuring, negotiating, and documenting debt and equity transactions.

A leading lawyer in the single-family residential housing industry, Steve has handled more than $100 billion of transactions involving single-family homes, including term and warehouse financings, single and multiborrower securitizations, joint ventures, investment funds, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve’s clients include Wall Street banks, special opportunities hedge funds, private market lenders, private equity funds, debt funds, and public and privately held companies.

Steve is known for his ability to handle a wide variety of novel transactions involving the financing of single-family homes. He developed the financing and securitization documentation that is widely used at all levels of single-family rental finance today. Steve also structured and handled the novel Zillow 2021-1 and 2021-2 securitizations.