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
  • Financial Institutions Corporate and ...
  • Financial Services
  • LIBOR Transition
  • Mortgage REITs
  • Real Estate Capital Markets
  • Real Estate Investment and Finance
  • Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation ...
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Profile

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.

Bar Admissions

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

    BA, Clemson University, cum laude, 1993

    Areas of Practice

    • Asset-Backed Securitization
    • Banking and Finance
    • Capital Markets and Securities
    • Corporate
    • Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory
    • Financial Services
    • LIBOR Transition
    • Mortgage REITs
    • Real Estate Capital Markets
    • Real Estate Investment and Finance
    • Residential Mortgage-backed Securities
    • Structured Finance and Securitization
    • Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation Finance and Early Buyout (EBO) Facilities

    Professional Career



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