Patrick Quinn, Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Department and a member of Cadwalader's Management Committee, is a corporate and securities lawyer who practices primarily in the area of mortgage and asset securitization and finance, representing issuers, underwriters, and investors in both public and private securities and financing transactions.

Pat has broad experience in structuring and re-structuring public and private residential and commercial mortgage securitization transactions, including traditional pass-through, debt, and offshore structures.  Pat also represents clients in the financing and re-packaging of residential and commercial mortgage backed securities in re-securitizations, CDOs and other structured products. 

Pat represents lenders in acquiring, financing and restructurings of real estate 'B notes', mezzanine loans and preferred equity positions.  He also works closely with Cadwalader's real estate lawyers in the origination of large commercial loans for securitization.  He frequently represents clients in the acquisition, disposition and financing of structured real estate debt instruments.

Pat regularly advises clients with respect to non-performing real estate debt instruments and structured products.  He has experience in working out highly-structured commercial real estate financings in the current credit crisis.  He recently moderated CMSA panels on work-outs and foreclosures of commercial mortgage loans in CMBS transactions and CRE CDO transactions.

Pat's practice includes representation of clients in various other types of structured offerings, including asset-backed commercial paper programs, auction-rate note programs, and various derivatives transactions.  In addition, he has broad expertise in TALF financings and Public-Private Investment Funds.

Pat is a frequent lecturer and panelist in industry conferences.  He has traveled  to Cairo, Egypt at the invitation of the U.S. Commerce Department, to participate as the securitization expert in a seminar concerning the development of the primary and secondary mortgage markets in Egypt.

Pat is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and received his B.A. from Fordham University.  He is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.