Representing issuers, underwriters, sponsors, and purchasers, the team at Alston & Bird LLP handles ABS and RMBS securitizations, as well as forward‑flow programs, revolving credit facilities and consumer‑loan securitizations. Splitting her time between Washington DC and New York, Tara Castillo heads up the finance practice group, with experience in consumer loan ABS securitizations and forward-flow financings. Katrina Llanes heads the structured and warehouse finance team from New York, with her areas of focus being mortgage servicing rights, mortgage-backed securities, and syndicated financings. In New York, Kristen Truver often covers single family rental securitizations, while the 'highly competent' Aimee Cummo works on two-tier loan facilities and residential mortgage loans.
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- 'Fantastic diverse team with great leadership. I've worked with A&B for nearly 15 years and have seen junior associates advance and become partners, and the team is always available and responsive, even during holidays and periods of remote work.'
- 'Alston is highly responsive and always available.'
- 'Aimee Cummo is everything you could ask for in outside counsel. She is highly competent and highly responsive. No matter how much high priority work we throw at her she manages to staff our matters and get them done in tight timing and still does a great job.'
Key clients
- Hilton Grand Vacations
- Bridge Investment Group Partners, LLC
- Capital One Securities, Inc.
- Brean Capital
- Morgan Stanley Bank
- Loandepot.com
- Guggenheim Securities, LLC
- Regional Management Corp.
Work highlights
Represented Hilton Grand Vacations, as issuer, in the issuance of $400 million of three tranches of term notes secured by timeshare loan receivables.
Represented Hilton Grand Vacations, as issuer, in the issuance of $500 million of three tranches of term notes secured by timeshare loan receivables.
Counsel to Regional Management Corp. in connection with its ninth and tenth term securitizations, involving issuance of $265 million and $200 million, respectively, of 144A and Regulation S notes backed by personal consumer loans.
Practice head
Tara Castillo; Katrina Llanes
Other key lawyers
Kristen Truver; Aimee Cummo