Ms Janet Sadler McCrae > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
200 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10166
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Janet Sadler McCrae
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
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate