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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.
David Coulson
David Coulson
With over 30 years of experience, Dave stands out for winning complex commercial matters, class actions, and product liability cases on motions and trying cases to successful outcomes. He is also praised by clients for his “business-oriented approach and ability to think outside of the box” to engineer settlements that align with clients’ business objectives. Dave is a trial lawyer who represents businesses in a wide array of disputes, including consumer class actions (typically involving claims of false advertising, statutory violations, or product defect) as well as lawsuits involving claims of breach of contract, business torts, trade secrets, trademark, RICO, product liability, product warranty, professional liability, shareholder securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and shareholder derivative actions. Dave is sought after by clients for his “analytical ability and knowledge of class action litigation” and “excellent courtroom manner.” Described by clients as “extremely experienced and strategic,” he has consistently developed successful strategies and implemented them with discipline, winning scores of cases on motions to dismiss or for summary judgment and defeating numerous motions for class certification. According to clients, “[h]e is very good on his feet and in cross-examination of witnesses.” When the situation calls for it, Dave operates as a “hard-riding litigator.” He has conducted over 30 trials, including over a dozen jury trials, and is best known for his compelling opening statements, telling stories through direct examinations and incisive cross-examinations of fact and expert witnesses, several of which have been credited for being catalysts for trial victory. Dave is a skilled negotiator. Clients emphasize that he is “pragmatic, practical and has a good business sense.” Throughout the years, Dave has engineered many creative business resolutions either before a lawsuit is filed or in early inflection points in litigation.[1]  In May 2022, Dave became a founding partner of Winston & Strawn’s Miami office and leads its Florida litigation practice. He serves on the firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation Advisory Board. Before joining Winston, Dave was a shareholder for 23 years with a Miami-based international law firm, where he led its Miami Litigation Department from 2008 to 2017 and was a member of that firm’s national Litigation Executive Committee from 2017 to 2021.
Juan Delgado
Juan Delgado
Juan has extensive experience in domestic and international corporate representations, including private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and bank financings, and the regular representation of private equity sponsors in venture and growth equity investments. His diverse cross-border practice includes clients with operations in Chile, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and other countries in Latin America. He represents clients in a wide range of industries including banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, and automotive. Juan has also advised various creditors in connection with complex cross-border restructurings. Juan is a partner in Winston’s Miami office. He is a member of the Transactions Department where he focuses his practice on advising multinational clients on cross-border transactions throughout Latin America and the United States. Juan’s diverse practice has included advising Liberty Latin America Ltd., a leading telecommunications company with operations in Chile, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and other parts of Latin America. Juan represented one of the largest Honduras-based financial services groups, whose offering was the first corporate bond in the international capital markets by a Honduran issuer. In addition, Juan has advised various creditors in connection with complex cross-border restructurings, including the unsecured creditors’ committees in the Aeromexico and Avianca bankruptcies.
Andrew Hinkes
Andrew Hinkes
Andrew “Drew” Hinkes focuses his practice on digital assets, advising financial services clients from startups to multinational corporations on a wide range of matters including securities regulation, payment systems and money services business regulation, lending and staking, secured transactions including digital assets as collateral, structuring and governance of DeFi protocols and similar applications, anti-money laundering compliance, non-fungible tokens, stablecoins and other related technologies. Drew has played a significant role in shaping legal standards for the industry, notably through his work with the Uniform Law Commission, where he contributed to the 2022 Amendments to the UCC, which integrate digital assets as controllable electronic records. Drew is a frequent speaker and writer on topics related to digital assets, with a particular focus on decentralized ventures, insolvency and digital assets, and regulation of digital assets, and is frequently quoted for his insights into digital assets and regulation, including features or quotes by The New York Times, Bloomberg, American Banker, MIT Technology Review, Time, Barrons, and CoinDesk, among others. Additionally, Drew is a co-author of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology: US Law and Regulation (Elgar 2020), a first-of-its-kind legal textbook designed for law and other graduate-level students.
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.