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Claudine Chen-Young

Claudine Chen-Young

Claudine Chen-Young helps banks, private equity firms and other similar institutions buy and sell mortgage assets and structure the financing of those financial assets. In particular, her extensive experience with buying and selling all types of residential mortgage loans, including growth mortgage products, allows her to negotiate tough transactions efficiently and effectively.Claudine is the sort of attorney who works just as closely with business people as she does with in-house counsel. She is often called on to assist traders on the trading desk in real time as they price assets, consider purchasing assets or deal with investor demands, and as a result is at ease with juggling time-sensitive demands and being highly responsive. Claudine is a strong and effective negotiator, always keeping a clear focus on what is best for her clients. Claudine often helps clients create innovative deal structures and establish new programs for financing assets through securitization and otherwise. She has counseled first-time issuers in setting up securitization programs. She has also helped companies create acquisition programs for the purchase and sale of several types of mortgage loans, including through correspondent lenders, and establish servicing and other related arrangements. From the beginning of a deal, Claudine works with the business and legal teams on deal strategy and how to best design the transaction. She knows how to set up deals so that they go smoothly, close on time and work well from both a process and pricing perspective. Claudine is an experienced, efficient and effective transactional lawyer who handles the full range of mortgage finance needs.
Alexander Iparraguirre

Alexander Iparraguirre

Alexander focuses on a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, aircraft finance, venture capital, and financing transactions in the United States and Latin America. Alexander represents clients in M&A, private equity, venture capital, private investment fund, and financing transactions in the United States and Latin America, primarily, in the technology, telecommunications, FinTech and financial services industries. Prior to joining Winston, Alexander served as a Corporate Counsel for SoftBank, including as the first member of the corporate legal team at the SoftBank Latin America Fund. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Craig Rasile

Craig Rasile

Craig focuses his practice on restructuring and insolvency matters, emphasizing bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, workouts, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He typically represents clients in the retail, health care, energy, telecommunications, gaming, transportation, logistics, franchise, manufacturing, REIT and financial institution industries. Craig represents corporate and partnership debtors, trustees, indenture trustees, creditor committees, as well as financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, and secured creditors in workouts, change of control transactions, and complex Chapter 11 reorganization cases involving pre-packaged and pre-negotiated arrangements, as well as traditional plans of reorganization. With several years of international experience, Craig has been involved in foreign bankruptcy proceedings in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Germany, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. He also has experience in ancillary bankruptcy proceedings filed in the U.S. involving the assets of foreign debtors. Craig assists clients in securitized loan transactions, secured and unsecured bond transactions, and the establishment of bankruptcy remote special purpose entities in connection with such transactions. He renders legal opinions in reference to securitized loan and municipal bond transactions, which have been reviewed by various rating agencies. He also renders preference and fraudulent transfer opinions. He has extensive experience representing SEC, CFTC, and FTC receivers in federal court securities fraud and consumer fraud receivership and bankruptcy cases. Such cases frequently involve Ponzi schemes and other types of investor fraud.
Flávia Stievani

Flávia Stievani

Flávia concentrates her practice on corporate governance, fund formation, securities laws, and compliance. Flávia is a member of the firm’s corporate department and Winston’s Brazilian Affiliate. Flávia has extensive experience advising public and private companies and private equity firms on corporate governance matters, securities laws, and corporate reorganizations. Flávia has also advised investors in securities class action suits. She is admitted both in New York and in Brazil.