Jonathan C Wishnia

Jonathan Wishnia is one of the nation’s leading corporate financing attorneys focusing in mortgage finance and receivables securitization. Jonathan has extensive experience advising clients on matters including the trading and financing of whole loans and servicing rights, the servicing of mortgage loans, and the securitization of various asset classes. Additionally, Mr. Wishnia counsels clients on secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset purchases and sales, mergers and acquisitions and other general capital markets matters. As a leader in this field, Mr. Wishnia has been recognized in Chambers USA in the area of Capital Markets: Securitization. Mr. Wishnia’s practice includes the representation of investment managers and management companies, fund organizations and portfolio companies, investment and commercial banks, consulting firms, financial institutions, broker-dealers, mortgage servicers and originators and nonprofit foundations, among others. 

Mr. Wishnia also leads the firm’s transactional team that coordinates with the Global Capital Markets and Securities Litigation Groups, advising clients on litigation and restructuring matters relating to mortgage- and asset-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, asset-backed commercial paper conduits, structured investment vehicles and derivatives.

• Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2012-2013) – Recognized at the national level in the Capital Markets: Securitization category. 
  
  
• Super Lawyers (2013-2015) - Recognized as a "Rising Star" for his work in Securities & Corporate Finance, Business/Corporate, Business Litigation category.

• “Servicer Considerations in the NPL/RPL Sector,” ABS East 2014, Miami Beach, Florida, September 21-23, 2014 
   
• Moderator, Mezzanine CLO Panel, CLO Summit, Dana Point, California, December 8-12, 2013
  
  
• "Emerging Mortgage Products Including Subprime/ Non QM and NPLs," ABS East 2013, Miami Beach, Florida, October 6-8, 2013 
  
  
• "Research Analyst Perspectives:  Finding Relative Value in the CLO Market," IMN's 2nd Annual Investors' Conference on CLO's and Leveraged Loans, New York, New York, April 10-11, 2013
  
  
• "State and Local Level Policy Initiatives and Private Label MBS: Implications of the RMBS Investor Market," ABS East 2012, Miami, Florida, October 21-23, 2012