Chris Gavin

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Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s Structured Finance and Residential Asset Finance and Securitization Practices, Chris is a nationally recognized mortgage securitization and finance partner.

Chris has led transactions that total a principal balance of over a trillion dollars spanning a global footprint that includes North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Chris represents and advises clients in a range of cross-border transactions and structured solutions involving:

Residential mortgage transactions (including whole loan sales, servicing transfers, repurchase and other warehouse facilities, and term securitizations for newly originated, seasoned and nonperforming loans), advising trustees and servicers regarding their rights and obligations in legacy residential mortgage transactions, asset-backed securitization and financing transactions, cross-border covered bonds, collateralized commercial paper programs, structured distressed portfolio joint ventures, the purchase and sale of residential mortgage and other financial services companies (including in developing structured solutions to protect purchasers from certain exposures of the acquired companies), and structuring investment vehicles that issue extendable commercial paper, including the working out and resolution of such transactions.

Highlights of Chris' vast experience with novel structured financings also include establishing the first collateralized commercial paper program for a major global financial institution, structuring the first cross-border covered bond in Latin America, creating one of the first aggregator residential mortgage securitization programs since the recent financial crisis, and developing a microfinance lending facility for fund activities in Uganda, Tanzania, and South Sudan.