Taylor Speers

Partner at Holland & Knight

Speaker

Taylor Speers is a financial services partner in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. Mr. Speers focuses his practice on structured finance transactions, with an emphasis on the financing of residential mortgage loans, mortgage servicing rights and servicing advance receivables.

Mr. Speers represents clients with respect to purchases and sales of mortgage servicing rights, whole loans and excess servicing strips; repurchase and other financing facilities (including those collateralized by residential loans, mortgage servicing rights, excess servicing spread, servicing advance receivables, unsecured consumer loans and other residential and consumer loan assets); mortgage servicing right securitization structures; servicing and origination platform acquisitions; and other related matters.

In addition to his extensive experience in the residential mortgage space, Mr. Speers routinely represents clients in connection with marketplace lending programs and related financings. His representation ranges from the negotiation of applicable program documents with platforms and originating banks to structuring and negotiating finance facilities collateralized by the underlying loans.

Mr. Speers previously served as the head of the transactional in-house legal group for a leading nonbank residential mortgage originator and servicer. He directly handled or managed all servicing right acquisitions, entity mergers and acquisitions, takeout investor trades, servicing advance and warehouse financing arrangements, vendor agreements, branch lease agreements, corporate secretarial functions and other transactional matters for the company.