Patrick C. Sargent, CRI

Pat Sargent focuses on structured finance and capital markets transactions, including extensive experience in commercial real estate finance and securitization, collateralized mortgage obligations, mortgage repo facilities, and structured financings of other diverse asset types such as trade receivables, auto loans, single-family rental loans, and equipment leases. He represents a national credit rating agency in commercial mortgage securitizations and CRE CLO transactions and also represents issuers, loan sellers, underwriters, investors, and servicers in public and private structured finance transactions and other debt and equity transactions. Sargent has served as past president and on the board of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC), and on the boards of the Structured Finance Association and the Mortgage Bankers Association. He also received the CREFC Founders Award for leadership and contributions to CREFC and the industry. He has written extensively on structured finance issues, including as contributing author to the CREFC CMBS E-Primer, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Sargent is listed in Chambers USA and Chambers Global for Capital Markets: Securitization CMBS and has been recognized regularly in The Best Lawyers in America® for Securitization and Structured Finance Law and Banking and Finance Law, and in Texas Super Lawyers.