Amy Williams

Practice Areas

Ms. Williams represents clients in structured finance transactions involving residential and commercial loans, servicing advances, mortgage servicing rights, single family rental properties, RMBS, CMBS and other assets. She has represented Ginnie Mae since helping develop its multiclass program in 1994. She assists clients in transactions involving government-insured loans (including FHA, VA and USDA loans) and GSEs, including warehouse financings, gestation facilities, early buy-out transactions (EBOs) and MSR financings.

Ms. Williams is a trusted adviser to real estate investment trusts, specialty finance companies and other entities on Investment Company Act of 1940 status questions, including the applicability of exclusions from the “covered fund” definition under the Volcker Rule.

Ms. Williams serves on the Editorial Board of the ABA’s “In Our Opinion” newsletter and on a drafting group considering an expansion of the Statement of Opinion Practices. She is a fellow in the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and speaks frequently on commercial finance and legal opinion matters. She chairs the firm's opinion committee and ethics in marketing committee. Ms. Williams serves as a mentor to community members and at the Firm, where she hosts regular “Wisdom Wednesday” sessions. She is Chair of the Advisory Board of Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center.