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Practice Expertise
- Business Tax-in development
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Derivatives
Areas of Practice
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Business Tax-in development
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Derivatives
- Energy Finance and Securitization
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- International Tax
- Marketplace Lending and FinTech
- Mortgage Loan Servicing and Mortgage ...
- Private Equity
- Public Utility Securitization
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
- Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and ...
- Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization
- Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization
- Single Family Rental (SFR) Financing and ...
- Structured Finance and Securitization
- Tax
- Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation ... View More
Profile
Cecelia is co-head of the firm’s Tax and ERISA practice. She represents a wide variety of clients concerning federal and international tax issues in private and public securitized REMIC, debt and grantor trust offerings, in connection with a wide variety of assets including real estate, mortgage loans and online marketplace loans. She also represents various financial institutions, specialty finance companies, hedge funds and private equity funds regarding federal and international income taxation with a particular focus on issues regarding real estate assets, mortgage loans and online marketplace loans, distressed assets, fund formation and choice of entity, US trade or business, FIRPTA, US withholding, and PFIC and CFC status.
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, Articles Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1998
BA, Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, 1990
Areas of Practice
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Business Tax-in development
- Credit Risk Transfer
- Derivatives
- Energy Finance and Securitization
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- International Tax
- Marketplace Lending and FinTech
- Mortgage Loan Servicing and Mortgage Servicing Rights
- Private Equity
- Public Utility Securitization
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
- Reverse Mortgage/HECM Financing and Securitization
- Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization
- Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization
- Single Family Rental (SFR) Financing and Securitization
- Structured Finance and Securitization
- Tax
- Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation Finance and Early Buyout (EBO) Facilities
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Professional Associations
- Represent wide variety of clients concerning federal and international tax issues in private and public securitized REMIC, debt and grantor trust offerings, particularly in connection with real estate assets, including the representation of US government agencies in mortgage loan securitization transactions.
- Tax structuring and evaluation of collateralized loan obligation transactions, collateralized debt obligation transactions, synthetic and hybrid securitization transactions, and resecuritization transactions and representation of parties related to these transactions.
- Representation of various financial institutions, specialty finance companies, hedge funds and private equity funds regarding federal and international income taxation with particular focus on issues regarding real estate assets, distressed assets, fund formation and choice of entity, US trade or business, FIRPTA, US withholding, and PFIC and CFC status.
- Represent clients regarding the federal and international income tax aspects of derivative transactions including total rate of return swaps, credit default swaps, options and forward contracts.
- Counsel clients concerning the federal and international tax aspects of debt workouts and restructurings and the wind-down of securitization entities.
- Represent servicers and underwriters in connection with servicing advance facility financings.
- Represent REIT clients in connection with securitized debt transactions.
Professional Associations
- Member, Virginia State Bar
- Member, American Bar Association, Section of Taxation
- Member, 100 Women in Hedge Funds
Articles
- Structured Finance and Securitization – 2021 Year in Review
- Structured Finance and Securitization – 2022 Year in Review
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