Stephen S Kudenholdt

Practice Areas

Stephen Kudenholdt is Dentons' Head of Structured Finance and a member of the US Capital Markets practice.

Areas of practice include residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), and other asset-backed securities (ABS), primarily focusing on residential mortgage loan securitization and re-securitization transactions of mortgage-backed securities. He represents issuers, underwriters, loan sellers and other entities in public offerings and private placements. Stephen helped develop many transaction structures that have become industry standards, including shifting interest subordination techniques. He advises on issues such as credit risk retention. Recent transactional work includes representing issuers and underwriters in the securitization of distressed assets by federal agencies, and in the expanding private RMBS markets. Stephen recently worked on cross-border securitizations involving the UK, Spain and Panama, as well as a Texas electric cooperative securitization. He served on the board of directors of the Structured Finance Association (SFA) and is involved in SFA committees and initiatives pertaining to ESG, LIBOR transitioning, SEC rules, residential mortgages and RMBS.

Professional Memberships

Structured Finance Association: past member, board of directors; member, Residential Mortgage Committee; member, LIBOR Task Force

Publications

"LIBOR—Hazards on the Road to Reform," The Journal of Structured Finance, 2018

Personal

University of Michigan Law School, cum laude, JD; University of Illinois, BA