Structured Finance
Mortgage Securitization
- CMBS
- RMBS
Real Estate Finance
- Project Finance
- Preferred Equity
- Senior & Subordinated Debt
Speciality Finance
- Consumer Recievables
- Auto Receivables
- Aviation (Aircraft & Engine) Finance
- Equipment Leasing
- Insurance & Senior Settlements
- Broadcast Towers
- Data Centers
The Company delivers a full range of asset-backed products and services to a variety of investors and issuers. The investment banking team consists of seasoned professionals with a combined six decades of securitization experience in many asset types across a wide variety of sectors, including auto receivables, commercial mortgages, credit card receivables, gaming revenues, and life insurance settlements. The group also has special expertise in managing complex transactions involving cross-border securitizations and special purpose assets.
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Advisory
Corporate Structure
The firm can provide guidance and recommendations on the organization, setup and arrangement of a company's legal, financial, and operational components to optimize efficiency, governance, liability, and other strategic considerations.
Corporate Valuations
The firm can provide guidance and recommendations on assessing the overall financial worth of a company, which involves analyzing its assets, liabilities, earnings, and other relevant factors to determine its market value, often for purposes such as mergers and acquisitions, investment decisions or financial reporting.
Asset Valuations
The firm can provide guidance and recommendations on determining the monetary value of various assets, such as properties, investments, or other possessions, often for purposes like financial reporting, transactions, or investment decisions.
FinTech
The firm is well versed in all aspects of this sector including advising as to debt, equity, asset sales, transaction structuring and engineering related to the underlying technology.
Representative Deals
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Specialized Data Center
$92 MillionIssued Senior and Mezzanine Securities -
Owner Occupied Mortgage Portfolio
$180 MillionIssued Rated Senior and Subordinate Securities -
Senior Life Settlements
$60 MillionIssued Senior and Mezzanine Securities -
Broadcast & Cell Towers
$220 MillionIssued Rated Senior and Subordinate Securities -
Structured Insurance Settlements
$42 MillionIssued Rated Senior Securities -
Revolving Capitive Credit Card Receivables
$40 MillionIssued Senior Securities -
Credit Card Receivables
$100mm+
Multiple TransactionsSubordinate Rated Securities -
Seller Carryback Residential Mortgages
$110 Million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Rated Senior and Subordinate Securities -
Seller Carryback Commercial Mortgages
$120 Million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Rated Senior and Subordinate Securities -
Unsecured Consumer Term Loans
$5-50 million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Senior Securities and Whole-Loan Participations -
Jet Aircraft Parts and Engines
$12-42 million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Senior Securities -
RE REMIC of RMBS
$25+ Million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Rated Senior and Subordinate Securities -
Auto Receivables - Prime & Subprime
$20+ Million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Rated Senior and Subordinate Securities -
Residential Real Estate
Up to $300 Million
Multiple TransactionsIssued Senior, Mezzanine & Preferred Equity -
Leveraged Buyout - Wine Industry
$80 MillionIssued Senior and Subordinate Securities
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Leadership
Steve Nasser has overall responsibility for the firm's activities. Areas of expertise include commercial and residential mortgage lending and related securities issuance, consumer credit including credit card and automobile receivable financing, insurance products and specialty real estate finance. He was the founder and Chairman of US Statewide Bancorp which was engaged in consumer and mortgage finance. Subsequently he was co-head of the structured group at First Southwest Securities, Sutro Securities and Stone & Youngberg. He graduated from the University of California Los Angeles and San Francisco State University.
Neal Sebbard started his career with Salomon Brother’s mortgage group in the early 1980s and then proceeded to work at First Southwest Securities, Sutro Securities and Stone & Youngberg as co-head of structured finance. His expertise is in asset-backed and mortgage finance, especially in the securitization of asset types on behalf of financial institutions. He is a Director of First Electronic Bank, Utah. Mr. Sebbard is a graduate of Principia College in Illinois and completed graduate studies at New York University’s Silverstein School of Real Estate.
Prescott Nasser is an engineer with a financial services bent.