Mr Francisco Flores > Winston & Strawn LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile
Winston & Strawn LLP Offices
333 SOUTH GRAND AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90071
CALIFORNIA
United States
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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.
Latin America: International firms > Banking and finance
Winston & Strawn LLP continues to significantly expand its banking and finance offering, primarily through the launch of a large Latin America-focused Miami office in 2022. This has provided the Latin America practice with considerable depth in project finance, bank regulatory matters, fintech, digital payments and digital assets. In project finance, Richard Puttré has a long history in energy and infrastructure financings, especially for Spanish construction companies and other sponsors. This builds on the firm’s pre-existing expertise in Latin America project financings, including in the renewable energy sector; it has an especially strong record in Chile. The new Miami office also includes partner Craig Rasile, an experienced figure in bankruptcy and restructuring, including Latin America engagements. Carl Fornaris joined from Greenberg Traurig LLP to co-chair the financial services group and the digital assets & blockchain technology team, and has an extensive background in Latin America. Kimberly Prior and Daniel Stabile also co-head the digital assets & blockchain technology group. Other key partners include Talbert Navia and Allen Miller who co-chair the Latin America team from New York; and the highly-rated Rodrigo Carvalho, managing partner of the São Paulo office. Los Angeles-based Francisco Flores is highly rated for structured finance transactions in Latin America. All named individuals are based in Miami unless stated otherwise.
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