Howard concentrates his practice in real estate and structured finance, banking and creditors’ rights. He has extensive experience in lender representations in complex real estate transactions including syndicated transactions.
His focus encompasses portfolio and conduit real estate financing, including construction financing, of commercial and industrial properties, commercial mortgage banking services, and loan servicing from the lender’s perspective.
With respect to bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, he has experience with representing secured and unsecured creditors in all aspects of complex debt restructurings, reorganizations and workouts in and out of the bankruptcy context in the real estate financing areas.
Howard advises commercial mortgage banking originators and servicers relating to the origination and servicing of mortgage loans both pre and post securitization.
In regard to structured finance transactions, Howard represents a government sponsored enterprise in advance financings secured by a pledge or sale of a servicer’s advance receivables and facilities secured by mortgage servicing rights involving syndications, note sales and repurchase agreements.
Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Howard served as deputy general counsel at AMRESCO, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.
- Representation of a Fortune 50 financial institution in an acquisition loan for a portfolio of office buildings in Florida.
- Representation of a Fortune 50 financial institution in the construction financing of industrial warehouses in the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest.
- Representation of a European lender in the financing of hotels, resorts and multifamily income producing properties throughout the United States.
- Representation of a Fortune 50 financial institution in the acquisition and refinancing of multifamily properties in Arizona, North Carolina, Texas and Georgia.
- Representation of a financial institution in the term loan financing of thirteen acute care facilities in Tennessee, Mississippi and West Virginia.
- Representation of a Fortune 50 financial institution in the out of court restructuring of income producing properties located in the Southeast.
- Representation of a Fortune 50 financial institution in various note sales secured by properties in the Mid-Atlantic.
- Representation of a government sponsored enterprise relating to syndicated credit facilities secured by mortgage servicing rights.
- Representation of a government sponsored enterprise in a note offering and sale secured by mortgage servicing rights.
- Representation of a government sponsored enterprise in revolving lines of credit secured by a sale or pledge of advance receivables.
- Representation of one of the leading providers of commercial mortgage origination and loan servicing in the United States.
Events
- Speaker, "Managing Borrower Expectations," Mortgage Bankers Association Conference, July 9, 2007
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Named to “Georgia Super Lawyers,” Banking, Securities & Corporate Finance, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2005