Michael Welch's practice focuses on structured finance and securitization matters, representing issuers, underwriters, and other securitization participants in connection with registered offerings and private placements of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.

Michael has extensive experience in the structuring and securitization of a broad range of residential mortgage products, including new origination, re-performing and distressed mortgage loans, home equity loans and home equity lines of credit, reverse mortgages, and portfolios of rental and fix-and flip investment properties. Michael represents funds in establishing mortgage loan acquisition platforms, including negotiating purchase and sale agreements, warehouse lines of credit and master repurchase agreements and third-party vendor contracts for QM and non-QM mortgage loans.

He also advises clients in the developing fintech space, including the purchase, financing, and securitization of unsecured consumer and commercial loans originated on marketplace lending platforms.

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