Analysis and Insight in Blockchain Law
Practice Expertise
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Blockchain
- Corporate
Areas of Practice
- Blockchain
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Corporate
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Blockchain and Digital Assets
- Financial Services
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
- Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and ...
- Structured Finance and Securitization View More
Profile
Brent’s practical advice helps clients comply with securities law and prepare for the potential impact of proposed and enacted regulatory reforms on capital markets transactions. His extensive experience counseling issuers, underwriters and other market participants in hundreds of securitizations involving residential and commercial mortgage loans has made him a well-known structured finance lawyer.
Brent assists clients in navigating novel transactions and designing new securitization programs. He is focused on promoting efficient solutions to tough problems in the re-emerging private RMBS markets. Brent also advises clients on complex issues that arise in legacy RMBS transactions from time to time.
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, Villanova University School of Law, 2001
BA, Dickinson College, cum laude, 1998
Areas of Practice
- Blockchain
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Corporate
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Blockchain and Digital Assets
- Financial Services
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
- Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and Securitization
- Structured Finance and Securitization
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Professional Activities and Experience
- Represented issuers, underwriters, servicers, originators and other market participants on hundreds of securitization and resecuritization transactions involving residential and commercial mortgage loans.
- Prepared and filed registration statements, Form 8-Ks and Form 10-Ks for RMBS and CMBS issuers.
- Advised purchasers and sellers of mortgage loans, servicing rights and REO properties.
- Drafted residential mortgage loan servicing agreements and provided advice to servicers and originators regarding contract interpretation issues and compliance with law.
- Represented and advised government-sponsored enterprises in connection with their participation in US Treasury Department's New Issue Bond Program, which provided financing for state housing finance agencies to issue housing bonds during credit crisis.
- Assisted major servicer in creating and populating database to assist personnel in making servicing decisions.
Professional Activities and Experience
- Listed for Structured Finance, Legal 500 United States, 2016-2017
Articles
- Structured Finance and Securitization – 2023 Year in Review
- Structured Finance and Securitization – 2021 Year in Review
- Structured Finance and Securitization – 2022 Year in Review
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