Peter S. Barwick

• Represented the finance subsidiary of a major automobile manufacturer in the renewal of a European medium-term note program.
• Represented major financial institutions as master servicer, securities administrator and trustee in closing numerous public and private residential mortgage loan securitization transactions, including non-performing loan transactions.
• Represented major financial institutions as certificate administrator and trustee in closing numerous public and private commercial mortgage loan securitization transactions, including non-performing loan transactions.
• Represented a major financial institution as calculation agent and paying agent in closing numerous single-family rental securitizations and loan facilities.
• Represented major financial institutions as trustee, securities administrator and securities intermediary in closing various public and private asset-backed securitization transactions, including net interest margin, home equity line of credit and resecuritization transactions.
• Represented a major financial institution as global agent in closing agency-sponsored synthetic credit risk transfer transactions.
• Represented a major financial institution as trustee in closing numerous advance facility trusts.
• Represented a major financial institution as master servicer in connection with transfers of servicing for residential mortgage loan securitization transactions.
• Represented major financial institutions as trustee and as master servicer in restructuring securitization transactions to resolve merger-related conflicts related to ERISA and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
• Represented major financial institutions as trustee in closing trust bifurcation transactions and trust terminations.
• Represented a major financial institution as trustee in closing numerous distressed debt fund transactions.
• Represented a national bank joint venture entity in the negotiation of servicing agreements with participant banks.

Peter Barwick is a retired partner with Alston & Bird's Finance Group and focuses his practice on structured finance matters, including the representation of major financial institutions in their roles as master servicer, certificate administrator, paying agent, trustee, custodian and issuer in mortgage-backed and asset-backed securitization transactions. Peter has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^© in the area of Banking and Finance Law.

Peter received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he was a Williams Scholar. He received an M.A.R. in ethics, cum laude, from Yale Divinity School, where he was a Carpenter Scholar. Peter received his B.A. in history, magna cum laude, from Amherst College.

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina

Education

• Duke University (J.D., 2001)
• Yale University (M.A.R., 1995)
• Amherst College (B.A., 1992)

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