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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
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200 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10166
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Serena Mentor
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Work Department
Capital Markets and Securities, Structured Finance and Securitization, Real Estate Capital Markets, Residential Mortgage-backed Securities, Corporate, Credit Risk Transfer
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Mentor is widely recognized for her securitization work and her provision of experienced, even-keeled practical advice to her clients. She has longstanding experience representing issuers, sponsors, underwriters, agents, trustees and servicers in connection with public and private asset-backed securitization transactions, with a special focus on mortgage and mortgage-related assets.
Her experience includes analyzing and interpreting various regulations, requirements and restrictions promulgated by regulatory and other governing authorities with respect to such securitizations. Ms. Mentor also has significant experience representing clients in connection with secured lending and repurchase facilities and other financing transactions.
Prior to joining Hunton Andrews Kurth, Ms. Mentor was senior capital markets counsel for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., where she was responsible for providing legal advice and guidance with respect to emerging issues, market practice and new rules and regulations affecting the securitization of various asset types. Prior to Wells Fargo, Ms. Mentor was a partner at another large law firm based in New York.
Memberships
Admitted to the New York State Bar
Education
- JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1995
- BA, Colgate University, 1991
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- 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: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- 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
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings