Andrew Burton

• Lead associate on three issuer securitization programs, starting as a second-year attorney.
• Represented three investment banks in advising, negotiating, and structuring three separate master repurchase facilities for Ginnie Mae early buyout loans, with facility sizes aggregating to $4.78 billion.
• Represented originators/issuers in over six term auto securitizations totaling approximately $1.5 billion.
• Counsel to a publicly traded consumer finance company in its warehouse and 144A securitization program involving hard-secured and soft-secured consumer loans.
• Counsel to a publicly traded timeshare finance company in its 144A securitization program involving timeshare receivables.
• Represented originators, as loan sellers, in over 15 CMBS securitizations.
• Represented originators, as loan sellers, of single-family rental mortgage loans in the securitization of such loans.

Andrew Burton is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Finance Group. He represents underwriters, issuers, borrowers, lenders, and other market participants in structured finance transactions. Andrew has experience across a broad range of ABS asset classes, such as auto/equipment loans and leases, consumer loans, merchant cash advances, timeshare loans, and trade receivables. Andrew’s transactional experience includes representation of issuers and originators in CMBS, MBS, and SFR deals. Andrew also has experience in corporate debt, real estate, entertainment law, trademarks, and international environmental law. An advocate for others, Andrew serves on the board of Adaptive Training Foundation, a Dallas non-profit that empowers individuals with physical disabilities and traumas to transform their lives through exercise and community.

Andrew received his J.D. from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. He received a B.A. in business from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business.

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• Southern Methodist University (J.D., 2019)
• Arizona State University (B.A., 2013)