“Investing in MSRs,” 21st Annual ABS East Conference

Tom Hiner, a partner in, and co-head of, the firm’s structured finance and securitization practice was a panelist at the 21st Annual ABS East Conference in Miami, which was attended by over 3,700 industry participants. His panel, “Investing in MSRs,” discussed a number of topics such as regulatory drivers and impediments, excess servicing rights & servicing advances, execution and trading, acquisitions & dispositions, valuation and performance, consumer and interest rate modeling and risk management, flow agreements vs. servicing for immediate release vs. bulk sale, collateral types, financing and using MSR as a financing tool, retain vs. release and origination trends impact. Hiner has extensive experience advising servicers, investment banks and lenders regarding buying, selling and financing mortgage servicing rights and is a recognized leader in that field by publications such as Chambers USA and The Legal 500.