Alexis M. Higgs

• Representing major financial institutions as the trustee, securities administrator, and custodian in closing numerous public and private commercial mortgage-backed and residential mortgage-backed securitizations.
• Representing major financial institutions in closing numerous asset-backed transactions involving a variety of asset types, including credit card receivables, auto loans, and consumer loans.
• Representing major financial institutions as the master servicer in closing numerous public and private residential mortgaged-backed securitizations.
• Representing major financial institutions as the custodian on mortgage-loan warehousing and other custodial arrangements.
• Representing major financial institutions in the administration and the natural or early termination of transactions.
• Represented a major financial institution as the indenture trustee on agency-sponsored synthetic credit risk transfer transactions.
• Represented a major financial institution on the implementation of a variety of data privacy regulations in a transaction.
• Represented a major financial institution as trustee on a program involving the issuance of municipal certificates.

Alexis Higgs is a member of Alston & Bird’s Finance Group. She focuses on advising corporate trust clients on a wide variety of capital markets transactions, including structured finance and debt offerings. Before joining the firm, Alexis represented issuers and underwriters in commercial mortgaged-backed securitizations at a major New York law firm.

Alexis represents major financial institutions as master servicer, trustee, paying agent, securities administrator, disbursement agent, escrow agent, and custodian on public and private CMBS, ABS, and RMBS transactions, including new securitizations, terminations, amendments, repurchase facilities, escrow arrangements, and custodial arrangements. Alexis is also named in The Best Lawyers in America© “Ones to Watch” for banking and finance law.

Alexis earned her J.D. and an LL.M. in international and comparative law in 2013 from the Duke University School of Law. She earned a bachelor of arts in both history and international studies in 2009 from Yale University where she was also a four-year letter winning member of the Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Team.

Bar Admissions

• California
• New York
• North Carolina

Education

• Duke University (J.D., LL.M., 2013)
• Yale University (B.A., 2009)

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