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Pat's practice focuses on structured finance, corporate securities, and business transactions, including extensive experience in securitization of diverse asset types, collateralized mortgage obligations, pass-through certificates, bond financings, and various project and international finance transactions. He has represented a national credit rating agency in commercial mortgage and asset-backed securitizations, and also represents issuers, underwriters, investors, and servicers in public and private structured finance transactions and other debt and equity transactions.
In addition, Pat's finance practice includes merger and acquisition transactions as well as general corporate, partnership, and joint venture representation.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Represented Fortune 100 company in commercial mortgage lease-backed securitization of its corporate headquarters (2003)
Structured first cross-border credit tenant lease securitization based on Mexican credit (1996)
Represented issuer in a consumer receivable master trust combined term and revolving credit facility securitization
Represented the acquiror in a combined merger and structured finance purchase of multiple restaurant chains
Represented subprime auto lender in securitization of its residuals from multiple term securitizations
ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
"Adapting Tenancy-in-Common Structures to SPE Requirements" (January 31, 2000)
"In Re Kingston Square Associates: Questioning Independent Director Provisions" (November 30, 1997)
"Structural and Legal Issues in Commercial Mortgage Securitization Transactions" Corporate Counsel Review (November 01, 2004)
"Third Circuit Reverses Owens Corning: Substantive Consolidation as a Shield, not a Sword," Real Estate Finance, Volume 22, No. 4 (December, 2005)
"Third Circuit Reverses Owens Corning: Substantive Consolidation as a Shield, not a Sword," Securitization and Structured Finance Alert (August 29, 2005)
"Commercial Mortgage Securitization," International Asset Securitisation, Lloyds of London Press (1995)
"Bankruptcy Remote Finance Subsidiaries: The Substantive Consolidation Issue," 44 Business Lawyer 1223 (1989)
Contributing Author - The Rating of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities, Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (1994)
BRIEFINGS, SEMINARS & SPEECHES
Capitalize on Your Leverage (May 18, 2006)
Commercial Securitization for Real Estate Lawyers (April 27, 2006)
Speaker
"Structural and Legal Considerations in Commercial Mortgage Securitizations," Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. National and Regional Conferences on Structured Finance
"Securitización de Activos: La Experencia Práctica de Estados Unidos y América Latina," Securitización Avances y Perspectivas, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Member
State Bar of Texas
American Bar Association
Section of Business Law, Committee on Developments in Business Financing, Subcommittee on Securitization of Assets
Board of Governors, Mortgage Bankers Association
Board of Governors, Commercial Mortgage Securities Association
Editorial Board, CMBS World, a publication of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association | 