Jodi Schwimmer Bio

Jodi has spent more than 20 years representing investment banks, specialty lenders, special strategy debt funds, real estate investors and participants in the secondary debt market, since beginning her legal career in 2001. She previously served as global co-lead of Reed Smith's Financial Industry Group. Jodi is well-known in the industry for “closing the deal,” and has personally closed hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of commercial mortgaged-backed securities (CMBS) and similar debt securities. She has extensive and broad structured finance skills across a variety of underlying debt obligations. Jodi is well-known in the industry for “closing the deal,” and has personally closed hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of commercial mortgaged-backed securities (CMBS) and similar debt securities. She has extensive and broad structured finance skills across a variety of underlying debt obligations. Specifically, Jodi focuses on CMBS, real estate finance, asset-based finance (including cannabis financing, “income share agreements,” and other niche lending markets) and structured finance, concentrating on esoteric structures, debt issuances, preferred equity raises, privately placed pre-packed securities, repurchase/warehouse facilities, and bridge-to securitization structures. In connection with these structures, Jodi often counsels specialty lenders and special strategy debt funds on new lending platforms, and she can negotiate highly complex partnership and joint venture relationships in connection with the same. Jodi has experience organizing grantor trusts, REMICs and private REITs. Jodi structuring experience extends to public and private commercial mortgage securitizations, including SFR and NPL assets, the repackaging of securities in re-securitizations, CRE CLOs and other structured transactions. Jodi also focuses on issues federal securities law relevant to these types of securitizations, including Regulation AB, Regulation AB II, Risk Retention and Dodd Frank, and she advises on related securities compliance matters. Additionally, Jodi has broad-based knowledge experience in structuring real estate related junior notes/participation interests and mezzanine loans, and regularly represents clients in the purchase and sale of commercial and multifamily mortgage loans, mezzanine debt, subordinate debt and structured real estate debt instruments. She also has represented lenders in the workout, forbearance, modification and restructuring of debt that is held in secondary market transaction special purpose vehicles. Jodi has been praised by her clients for “knowing how to get deals done” and “overcoming roadblocks with other parties.”