Jay Gracin

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ABOUT JAY GRACIN

General Counsel | Chief Compliance Officer | Structured & Private Credit Specialist BasePoint Capital / BasePoint Advisors | 25+ Years in Structured Finance, Credit, and Asset-Backed Lending I’m a senior legal and compliance executive with over two decades of experience structuring, negotiating, and managing complex credit and asset-backed transactions — spanning origination, pool acquisitions, conduit seller programs, warehouse finance, securitization, and resolution. As the first legal hire at BasePoint Capital, brought in by the firm’s founder, I currently serve as General Counsel of BasePoint Capital and Chief Compliance Officer of BasePoint Advisors, where I lead the legal, regulatory, and governance framework supporting our private credit platform. Earlier in my career, I trained at the storied firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood, where I developed expertise using the foundational “Thacher forms” for whole loan and securitized transactions. I later held senior legal roles at Nomura Securities, where I was one of two attorneys covering fixed income originations, financings, and securitizations; and at Morgan Stanley, where I supported the securitized products and global funding desks — including the design and implementation of an early purchase financing solution program for residential mortgage conduit sellers and serving as a key member of a newly formed Global Funding Desk tasked with designing and scaling durable financing solutions for both routine and esoteric balance sheet assets. I’ve worked extensively with institutional investors, hedge funds, and banks across both performing and distressed credit situations — in and out of bankruptcy — and now oversee firm-wide legal operations, SEC compliance and franchise risk mitigation across BasePoint’s whole loan and investment advisory businesses.