Stuart Litwin

Experience

1. Partner and Co-head, Global Finance Practice

   Mayer Brown

   Jun 1983 — Present

   Stuart M. Litwin is a partner and co-head of the Global Finance Practice at Mayer Brown LLP. Mr. Litwin also co-heads Mayer Brown’s Structured Finance and Capital Markets Practices.Mr. Litwin is one of the leading lawyers in the United States in the representation of originators, investment banks, ABCP conduit sponsors, hedge funds, commercial banks and investors (including mutual funds) in structuring, negotiating and documenting U.S. and international asset-backed and other securities transactions. His experience has involved the securitization of virtually all asset types, and he is recognized as an expert in the securitization and financing of retail and commercial auto loan and leases, FFELP and private student loans, dealer floorplan receivables, equipment leases and loans, rental cars, commercial and residential mortgages, cross border transactions, synthetic risk transfers, money market fund investments and structured transactions in which banks and other clients seek advantageous treatment for accounting, regulatory capital or tax purposes. Mr. Litwin also regularly represents several hedge funds and reinsurance companies in their “alternative investments” (i.e, unusual assets or finance companies discovered by the hedge fund which are more difficult to fund in securitization or banking markets). He also has substantial experience representing lessees, equity investors and debt investors in leveraged and synthetic lease transactions and M&A transactions involving banks and finance companies. Mayer Brown’s Global Finance Practice, which Mr.Litwin co-leads, includes our Structured Finance, Lending, Derivatives, Asset Finance, Emerging Markets, Insurance Finance, Project Finance and Energy Finance practices.

Skills

• Mergers
• Investment Banking
• Banking
• Capital Markets
• Asset-Backed Security (Abs)
• Investments
• Abs
• Corporate Law
• Hedge Funds
• Financial Structuring
• Private Equity
• Derivatives
• Securitization
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Structured Finance
• Finance