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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
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Mr Thomas Hiner

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Work Department

Structured Finance and Securitization

Position

Partner

Career

Tom is co-head of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Corporate Team and has served on the firm’s executive committee. In his capacity as Corporate Team head, he has oversight over capital markets, private equity, M&A, REITs and other practice areas. He is a versatile lawyer with broad corporate finance experience, having represented financial institutions for over 30 years in structured finance, asset-based finance, secured lending, acquisition financing, risk transfer, private equity investments in financial and real estate assets, and asset securitization transactions.

Tom’s career has been highlighted by innovative transactions and esoteric and novel asset-based financings based in a deep-rooted background in the fundamentals of traditional structured finance, capital markets, and real estate finance and asset securitization. Tom frequently works side by side with lawyers from our M&A, business lending, funds, tax and bankruptcy/restructuring teams in structuring and executing transactions, providing clients with a comprehensive approach to their structured finance transactions in a complex and constantly changing market. In recent years, Tom has emerged as a notable figure in mortgage servicing investments and financing. In the last decade, he has led over 100 transactions for investments in and financing of servicing-related assets, including the development and implementation of groundbreaking structures.

Memberships

Admitted to the New York State Bar

Education

  • JD, Duke University School of Law, with honors, 1989
  • BA, English, University of Virginia, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, 1986

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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