Tina is a seasoned finance lawyer whose current practice focuses on asset-based lending and RMBS. She advises clients on matters involving a broad spectrum of business, legal, regulatory, risk management and compliance issues and has significant in-house and large firm experience working in structured and corporate finance. Tina represents Ginnie Mae in the issuance of securities pursuant to its government guaranteed multiclass securities program and in enhancements to the program. Tina is also co-head of the firm’s LIBOR Transition Client Service Team and continues to advise clients with respect to all aspects of LIBOR transition and alternative interest rates, including loan and security portfolio transition and model documentation. 

Prior to joining the firm, Tina served as general counsel for independent risk at a large US financial institution. In that role, she advised the independent risk organization on legal issues affecting risk management policies and practices, including corporate governance requirements and on regulatory reform related to risk management, enhanced prudential standards for systemically important financial institutions, orderly liquidation of large financial institutions and Basel Committee standards. She also played a leading role in the institution’s US recovery and resolution planning.

Before serving as general counsel for risk, Tina advised the institution’s corporate treasury on global financing programs, including commercial paper facilities, issuances of US covered bonds and synthetic credit-linked notes, securitizations of US, UK, Korean and Malaysian residential mortgage loans, HELOCs, student loans, auto loans and credit cards, and issuances of short and long-term debt in the US, Latin America, Europe, Australia and Thailand. Before that, Tina worked at several large, international law firms.

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Education
JD, Washington and Lee University School of Law, magna cum laude, 1996

BA, Clemson University, cum laude, 1993

• LIBOR’s Last Leg: Legislation and Synthetic LIBOR Ease the Transition to SOFR, The Review of Banking & Financial Services