Clifford Chance announced that James Cotins and Matthew Lyons have joined the firm's Structured Finance practice as partners in New York. They join from Alston & Bird and bring extensive experience in all aspects of the securitization of loans and securities backed by commercial real estate.
Cotins and Lyons routinely advise all main participants in commercial real estate-related securitizations, including commercial mortgage-backed securitizations, resecuritizations and CRE CLOs, as well as net-lease and single-family rental securitizations. They also represent sponsors, issuers, underwriters, collateral managers, loan sellers and rating agencies in public and private financing transactions, as well as lenders and investors in the acquisition, disposition and financing of commercial real estate-related assets.