Leveraging their extensive experience in the development of the structured products and securitization markets, our attorneys provide legal and business guidance and market insight to funds of all types that focus on capital market equity and debt opportunities. We represent such clients in connection with the establishment of funds or other vehicles to acquire to a wide range of assets, including performing, stressed or distressed commercial real estate assets, CMBS, RMBS, ABS, CLOs, CDOs, and real estate permanent loans, leveraged loans, construction loans, single asset/single borrower securitized loans, participating loans, whole loans, shared appreciation loans and conduit loans, senior/subordinate notes, mortgage and mezzanine loan senior and subordinate participation interests, syndicated loan interests, municipal securities and other products. 

We counsel clients in negotiating servicing arrangements and in the purchase of servicing and origination platforms.  We also are well versed in the regulatory, tax, bankruptcy, licensing and other legal issues that arise in these activities.  We have also structured residential, multi-family and commercial mortgage loan conduits; revolving credit/commercial paper facilities secured by commercial real estate and other assets; purchases and retrades of residential and commercial loans from the FDIC; servicing and/or pooling of mortgage loans for sale to various government or quasi-government agencies or as part of private or public pass-through transactions; and warehouse and gestation repos and financings and transactions with FMNA, Freddie Mac, GNMA and HUD.  Cadwalader has a well-earned reputation for innovation in this area, having participated in the first FNMA multi-family swap.

Our clients in this area are equally wide ranging as we counsel structured product funds, opportunity funds, domestic and offshore private equity and debt funds, real estate funds, distressed and stressed debt funds, public and privately offered commodity pools, acquisition funds, venture capital funds, investment advisers, and investment management organizations. 

From fund formation and structuring to management, investment and acquisition activities, our attorneys possess unsurpassed knowledge regarding dealings with secondary market interests.