Jonathan A Nunes

Practice Areas

JONATHAN A. NUNES is co-lead of Sidley’s global Securitization and Structured Finance practice. He focuses his practice on all aspects of structured finance, with particular focus on the representation of various issuers, sponsors, underwriters, originators, special servicers, investors, and loan sellers in a wide range of commercial real estate capital markets transactions including public and private commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), commercial mezzanine loan securitizations, re-REMICS, CRE CLOs, A/B and pari passu mortgage loan structures, and mezzanine loans. Jonathan has particular experience with respect to securities law compliance and related aspects of securitization transactions, including Securities Offering Reform, Regulation AB, Regulation AB II, and the U.S. credit risk retention rules. Jonathan also represents issuers and underwriters in connection with securitizations of esoteric and commercial real estate related portfolios, including data centers, wireless communication lease and tower portfolios, and NNN lease portfolios. In addition, Jonathan has extensive experience in the commercial mortgage loan workout area, purchases and sales of whole loan portfolios, and various bankruptcy and insolvency matters involving real estate and CMBS in particular.

Jonathan was recognized in Chambers Global (2025) for Nationwide Capital Markets: CMBS and is recommended in Structured Finance and Real Estate in Legal 500 United States (2013-2016). He was also recognized in the 2014 and 2015 editions of IFLR1000 as a “Rising Star” for Banking in the United States.