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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
Visit website 1 202 955 1500 1 202 778 2201

Mr Edward Douma

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202.778.2225 edouma@huntonak.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services, Real Estate Investment and Finance, Capital Markets and Securities, Structured Finance and Securitization, Asset-Backed Securitization, Private Investment Funds, Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization, FinTech, Corporate

Position

Partner

Career

Offering clients a unique combination of experience and innovation, Ed’s practice focuses on securitization and secured financing transactions. For more than 30 years, Ed has concentrated on the financing of term and revolving assets, with a focus on residential mortgages, HELOCS and mortgage-related assets such as servicing rights, as well as more esoteric assets and structures. His experience includes the representation of issuers, investment banks and credit enhancement providers in connection with mortgage-backed and asset-backed structured finance transactions and the representation of management and investors in the formation and operation of private equity funds investing in securitized assets.

Ed has developed and designed innovative structures for financing mortgage servicing rights, Ginnie Mae servicing advances and commuting financial guaranty insurance policies in corporate restructuring programs for mono-line insurance companies. He is also skilled at establishing commercial paper and term securitization programs. He has structured, negotiated and documented domestic and international transactions for financing residential and commercial mortgages, small business loans, future receivables, computer leases, equipment leases, trade receivables, synthetic leases, corporate debt and other financial assets.

Memberships

Admitted to the District of Columbia and Virginia Bars

Education

  • JD, University of the Pacific, with great distinction, 1986
  • AB, Political Economy of Industrial Societies, University of California, 1982

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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