Practice Expertise

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

Areas of Practice

  • Asset-Backed Securitization
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Financial Services
  • Real Estate Investment and Finance
  • Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization
  • Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation ...
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Profile

Erick’s practice focuses on structured finance in the secondary mortgage market. He represents clients in a wide range of structured transactions and other corporate finance transactions involving performing and non-performing residential mortgage loans, servicing rights, servicer advances, early buy-out (EBO) loans, trade receivables, home equity agreements and REO properties. He also advises specialty finance companies, including mortgage REITs, on the Volcker Rule and exemption from regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940 in connection with bank financings and securities offerings.

Erick is a versatile attorney, a practiced negotiator and a precise drafter. He engages in regular community and charitable volunteer work and pro bono work that serves the disadvantaged.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, Washington and Lee University School of Law, cum laude, 2006

    BA, Brigham Young University, 2000

    Areas of Practice

    • Asset-Backed Securitization
    • Capital Markets and Securities
    • Corporate
    • Energy Finance and Securitization
    • Financial Services
    • Real Estate Investment and Finance
    • Servicer Advance Financing and Securitization
    • Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization
    • Structured Finance and Securitization
    • Warehouse and Structured Lending, Gestation Finance and Early Buyout (EBO) Facilities

    Professional Career

    Significant Accomplishments
    • Represents originators, servicers and lenders in financing servicer advance receivables through structured facilities and related note issuances.
    • Advises specialty finance companies, including mortgage REITs, in structuring investments to remain exempt from regulation as investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
    • Represents Ginnie Mae in connection with its government guaranteed multiclass securities program and in enhancements to the program.
    • Represents a major U.S. bank as master servicer, trustee and/or bond and tax administrator on mortgage-backed securities transactions.
    • Represents financial institutions in mortgage repurchase facilities and gestation facilities.
    • Represents CDO collateral manager in connection with restructurings of various portfolio investments.


    Professional Associations
    • Member, J. Reuben Clark Law Society
    • Member, BYU Management Society


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