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Alston & Bird LLP

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Alston & Bird LLP‘s securitization team offers ’exceptional industry knowledge’ and is described by clients as a ‘go to firm for warehouse financing needs and creative solutions’.  The team is proficient in a broad spectrum of securitization asset classes, including residential and commercial loans and mortgages, aircrafts, pharmaceutical royalties, solar loans, SBAs and others. Katrina Llanes co-heads the team with Tara Castillo in Washington DC, and are both highly sought after for this experience in advising underwriters, issuers, loan sellers, and other clients in asset-backed securitizations. Anna French has standout expertise in RMBS while Aimee Cummo is a port of call for SFR finance and securitizations, an area that Century City’s Steve Blevit is also highly proficient in. Lawyers are in New York unless otherwise stated.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Exceptional industry knowledge - go to firm for warehouse financing needs and creative solutions - securitization partner and team have been great partners on many programs, including re-starting one this year that required to move efficiently/quickly to get the deal up and down to minimize execution risk - deep team and partners in tax/other specialties that have been great resources when structuring deals and highlighting salient considerations’

  • ‘Kristen Truver is great partner, excellent to work with - flexible, knowledgeable and great partner when working with issuers that need extra guidance as it is their first issuance or their first issuance in quite some time - have helped us build out and evolve our whole loan conduit program over the last decade plus’

  • ‘Their level of service and expertise. They are incredibly reliable and knowledgeable. ’

  • ‘They are a pleasure to work with and again, are incredibly reliable. They go above and beyond to share knowledge and help us make the right business decisions. ’

  • 'Fantastic securitization partners. The team are incredible.'

  • 'Alston and Bird are great at helping clients build out and evolve loan conduit programs.'

  • 'They are a pleasure to work with and are incredibly reliable.'

  • 'They go above and beyond to share knowledge and help clients make the right business decisions.'

Work highlights

Represented Discover Financial Services in an auction sale of a $10.1 billion student loan portfolio.
Represented JPMC Bank in a public credit card securitization as issuer counsel
Represented loanDepot, one of the country’s largest retail mortgage lenders and nonbank retail originators, as issuer and sponsor, on a $3 billion securitization of GNMA MSRs and Servicing Advances.

Practice head

Tara Castillo

Katrina Llanes

Other key lawyers

Kristen Truver

Aimee Cummo

Stephen Blevit

Anna French