Matthew Joseph Email & Phone Number

I provide sophisticated cross-border legal advice to a broad range of leading financial institutions, funds, and operating companies in the financial services, fintech, retail, auto, education and real estate industries. I assist clients with the development of innovative structured finance strategies and also advise on the acquisition and disposition of financial companies and their assets. I regularly represents issuers and underwriters in offerings of asset-backed securities, and am often involved in structuring innovative transactions with new asset types or unique tax and cash-flow structures, utilizing various forms of credit enhancement and derivatives. I represent financial institutions in structured lending transactions on balance sheet, in commercial paper conduit transactions and in acquisition financing transactions. I have structured the securitization of a broad range of financial assets, including automobile loans and leases, cell phone contracts, church loans and bonds, commercial loans, equipment leases, home equity loans and HELOCs, litigation settlement fees, marketplace loans, recreational vehicles, student loans, unsecured consumer and commercial loans and yen denominated consumer loans.I regularly represents a variety of financial institutions, including startup investment funds, finance companies, national banks, Fortune 500 companies and investment banks.As a regular speaker at securitization industry conferences, I have presented on topics such as marketplace loan lending and securitization, student loan securitization, retail auto loan securitization, the non-prime auto and credit card market, securitization alternatives, and the role of securitization in funding strategies. While a member of the Drafting Committee for the American Bar Association, I contributed to the comment letter to the SEC on the SEC’s proposed rules for asset-backed securities, Regulation AB. I have been named a leading practitioner in the field of securitization by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Chambers notes that clients recognize me for my “work helping companies manage asset securitization during the market downturn” and have noted me as a “'hugely skilled and well-liked young partner' who is also noted for his technical understanding of esoteric asset classes….”

Listed skills include Finance, Structured Finance, Loans, and Abs.