Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Asset-Backed Securitization
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Asset-Backed Securitization
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Finance and Restructuring
  • Hospitality (Real Estate Version)
  • Hotel REITs
  • Latin America
  • Mortgage REITs
  • North America
  • Real Estate Capital Markets
  • Real Estate, Development and Finance
  • Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
  • Single Family Rental (SFR) Financing and ...
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation ...
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Profile

David’s practice includes expertise in various commercial transactions on a national and international basis.

He represents issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, with an emphasis in structured and restructured issuances of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities. He also advises clients regarding the negotiation and structuring of various corporate and real estate financings and asset and stock acquisitions. Finally, David is experienced in handling a variety of other general corporate, mortgage banking, real estate and securities transactions.

Representative Experience

  • Served as outside general counsel to NYSE-listed mortgage REIT for 36 years
  • Represented issuers in over 500 mortgage and asset-backed securitizations
  • Represented buyer in $2 billion commercial mortgage loan repurchase facility
  • Represented hedge fund in acquisition of specialty finance company through bankruptcy proceedings
  • Represented Fortune 100 company in commercial mortgage leaseback securitization of its corporate headquarters
  • Represented a multilateral finance organization in drafting of mortgage-backed securitization legislation for Russia and Ukraine
  • Represented hospitality REIT in its IPO and subsequent common and preferred equity offerings

Education
BBA, The University of Texas, with highest honors, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Sigma Iota Epsilon, 1971

Areas of Practice

  • Asset-Backed Securitization
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Finance and Restructuring
  • Hospitality (Real Estate Version)
  • Hotel REITs
  • Latin America
  • Mortgage REITs
  • North America
  • Real Estate Capital Markets
  • Real Estate, Development and Finance
  • Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
  • Single Family Rental (SFR) Financing and Securitization
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation Finance and Early Buyout (EBO) Facilities

Professional Career



Articles

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  • AK Migration: DC Circuit’s Proxy Access Decision to Stand, but SEC to Allow “Private Ordering” of Proxy Access
  • AK Migration: Next Wave of MBS Litigation Focuses on Issuers, Underwriters
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