The Hunton & Williams LLP Immigration practice, part of the firm's Labor and Employment Team, is concentrated in two major areas. First our work involves advising American and foreign businesses about obtaining the most appropriate temporary and permanent work visas for executives, professionals, and other skilled foreign workers. Careful planning and documentation are necessary to ensure the greatest chance of success. We also represent our clients in any negotiations or administrative...
Practice Expertise
Areas of Practice
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Financial Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
- Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and ...
- Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization
- Single Family Rental (SFR) Financing and ...
- Structured Finance and Securitization
- Tax View More
Profile
Allison focuses her practice on federal income tax issues related to structured finance and securitization, equity REITs and mortgage REITs, including capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, and the taxation of partnerships and other pass-through entities.
Allison represents issuers and underwriters concerning federal tax issues in private and public securitized REMIC, debt, and grantor trust offerings, in connection with a variety of assets including real estate, forward and reverse performing, reperforming, and nonperforming mortgage loans, online marketplace loans, merchant cash advances, auto loans and other financial assets. She counsels REITs on securities offerings, acquisition transactions including tax protection agreements, roll-up transactions and UPREIT structures, initial public offerings, investment structuring, taxable REIT subsidiary structures, mezzanine loans and distressed debt. She also represents REITs in securitized debt transactions, merger and acquisition transactions, reorganizations and subsidiary spin-offs. Allison also has served as an adjunct professor teaching Partnership Taxation at Michigan State University College of Law.
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, William & Mary Law School, William & Mary Law Review, 2007
BA, Political Science, Michigan State University, with high honor, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004
Areas of Practice
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Financial Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
- Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and Securitization
- Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization
- Single Family Rental (SFR) Financing and Securitization
- Structured Finance and Securitization
- Tax
Professional Career
Articles
- Proposed Treasury Regulations May Recharacterize Taxable REIT Subsidiary Debt, Real Estate Finance Journal
- Real Estate Capital Markets – 2022 Year in Review
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