Ms Janet Sadler McCrae > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ms Janet Sadler McCrae

212.309.1234 jmccrae@huntonak.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services, Capital Markets and Securities, Structured Finance and Securitization, Asset-Backed Securitization, Credit Risk Transfer, Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and Securitization, Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization, Corporate

Position

Partner and New York office Hiring Partner

Career

As counsel to both banks and issuers, Ms. McCrae understands the business needs driving financial transactions and the relevant legal context that applies to them. This broad outlook enables her to give clients comprehensive advice with the most productive solutions in mind.

Ms. McCrae assists clients with offered transactions relating to a diverse base of assets, including residential mortgage loans (primarily in the reverse space), servicing advances and synthetic credit risk transfer. She has worked on financings and bilateral transactions across a wide spectrum of structures and assets, including lending facilities. She also understands how to guide clients in sales of MSRs, excess spread and other servicing-related assets. This breadth of experience allows her to help clients act quickly on market opportunities and innovate new structures in response to investor demand.

Ms. McCrae displays a strong affinity for pro bono work. She has acted as pro bono counsel with the City Bar Justice Center’s clinic at a shelter that serves homeless mothers and children, as well as for no-contest divorces offered to indigent clients of the New York Legal Assistance Group.  In addition, Ms. McCrae serves as the New York Hiring Partner.

Memberships

Admitted to the New York and Virginia State Bars

Education

• JD, William & Mary Law School, Notes Editor, Environmental Law & Policy Review, 2007
• AB, Princeton University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004