Janet Barbiere is a Partner in the Structured Finance group. She represents issuers, underwriters, originators, loan sellers and investors in commercial mortgage securitizations, real estate syndications, origination and servicing programs, the purchase, sale and acquisition of mortgage loans and mortgage securities, transactions in the secondary mortgage market, and other areas of real estate finance. She has also been active in the workout, restructuring and sale of distressed financial assets, including real estate-related debt and syndicated bank loans, and in the representation of creditors in insolvency proceedings. She serves on various ASF and CREFC Committees.
Ms. Barbiere has been ranked in the following publications:
- Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010-2011 — “Capital Markets: Securitization - National”
- Chambers Global: Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010-2011 — Band 2 for “US Capital Markets: Securitisation”
- U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers 2010-2011 — “Securitization and Structured Finance Law”
- Euromoney’s Expert Guides 2011 — “Structured Finance and Securitisation Lawyers”
- The Legal 500 United States 2008 — recognized for mortgage backed securities
Prior to joining Kaye Scholer, Ms. Barbiere was a partner in the New York office of Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP.