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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
RIVERFRONT PLAZA, EAST TOWER
951 EAST BYRD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States
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Amy Williams

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804.788.7388 awilliams@huntonak.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services, Real Estate Investment and Finance, Capital Markets and Securities, Structured Finance and Securitization, Asset-Backed Securitization, Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and Securitization, Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization, Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation Finance and Early Buyout (EBO) Facilities, Corporate, LIBOR Transition

Position

Partner

Career

Ms. Williams represents borrowers and lenders in structured finance transactions involving residential and commercial loans, servicing advances, mortgage servicing rights, single family rental properties, RMBS, CMBS and other assets. She has represented Ginnie Mae since helping develop its multiclass program in 1994. She assists clients in transactions involving government-insured loans (including FHA, VA and USDA loans) and GSEs, including warehouse financings, gestation facilities, early buy-out transactions (EBOs) and MSR financings.

She advises clients on LIBOR transition matters and novel issues, including technology issues, such as eNotes. Ms. Williams is a trusted adviser to real estate investment trusts, specialty finance companies and other entities on Investment Company Act of 1940 status questions, including the applicability of exclusions from the “covered fund” definition under the Volcker Rule.

Ms. Williams serves on the board of the Structured Finance Association (SFA). She serves on the Editorial Board of the ABA’s “In Our Opinion” newsletter. She is chair of the firm’s opinion committee and ethics in marketing committee. Ms. Williams serves as a mentor through the SFA and also at the Firm, where she hosts weekly “Wisdom Wednesday” sessions for younger lawyers. She is Vice Chair of the Advisory Board of Massey Cancer Center.

Memberships

Admitted to the New York and Virginia Bars

Education

  • JD, Cornell Law School, magna cum laude, Senior Note Editor, Cornell Law Review, 1990
  • AB, Duke University, cum laude, 1985

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Structured finance: securitization

Praised as a ‘top-notch team, with knowledge, client service, productivity, efficiency and value’, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP frequently leverages the expertise of the firm’s restructuring, bankruptcy, M&A and energy groups to advise on distressed and rescue financings, as well as capital and fund formation and financing transactions. The team has demonstrable experience advising on master trust securitizations and blockchain originated consumer loans, in addition to litigation finance securitizations, auto loans and credit receivables. In the firm’s Richmond office, Mike Nedzbala, who is noted for his expertise in MSR transactions, jointly leads the practice alongside New York-based Brent Lewis, who handles regulatory compliance mandates. The New York office is also home to mortgage-related securitizations expert Thomas Hiner, ‘pragmatic’ Eric Burner and ‘meticulous’ John Dedyo, who ‘has years of experience with securitizations backed by various different types of assets’. Based in Richmond, Amy Williams advises on structuring and closing asset-based finance transactions, while Cecelia Horner focuses on the income tax aspects of domestic and cross-border secured financings. New York-based Brit Mohler Dufilho and Washington DC’s Edward Douma, who ‘has worked on bespoke financings and securitizations’, are also key contacts in the group.

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