Gregory Mottla

Partner

Greg Mottla provides actionable, pragmatic legal counsel for complex structured finance and securitization matters. Specifically, he represents issuers, underwriters, financial institutions, and investors in capital markets transactions involving residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), particularly qualified mortgages (QM), non-qualified mortgages (NQM), investor loans (INV), re-performing loans (RPL), non-performing loans (NPL), and home equity agreements (HEA or HEI). Greg leverages market-leading experience in the emerging home equity agreement space, where he advises market participants on innovative financing structures that provide homeowners with access to equity while creating new investment opportunities.

In connection with his RMBS work, Greg also represents purchasers and sellers of residential mortgage loans and has deep experience with an array of financing transactions for borrowers, lenders, and servicers involving mortgage loans.

Greg’s avid commitment to pro bono work involves working with various veterans’ advocacy groups as well as at-risk high school students. Most recently, Greg prevailed in obtaining a discharge upgrade for a decorated veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was dishonorably discharged due to his mental state. This favorable result upgraded the veteran’s dishonorable discharge to that of general (under honorable conditions), allowing the veteran to obtain military death honors posthumously as well as receive combat and service medals for his prior service record.

Greg also plays an active role in the firm’s summer recruiting program and served as a summer associate recruiting manager for the Washington office.

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  • Represented home equity agreement originator in the platform’s debut securitization transaction, a rated offering of approximately $217 million of asset-backed notes that were collateralized by a loan that in turn was secured primarily by a pool of option purchase agreements originated by the company or its affiliates
  • Represented a global investment bank as initial purchaser in a securitization backed entirely by residential home equity investment contracts in a structure of first impression
  • Represented a global investment bank as lender in an $8 billion structured seller-financing facility to a bankruptcy remote subsidiary; advised lender on various aspects of the larger transaction related to its securitized products assets
  • Represented a multinational investment bank as sole initial purchaser and structuring agent in a $500 million debt-for-nature “blue bond” offering for an African nation; transaction was the first debt-for-nature swap transaction in continental Africa
  • Represented a multinational investment bank and financial services holding company in its purchase of Medicare Part D receivables using a novel never-before-used structure
  • Represented a broker dealer and investment adviser as initial purchaser in a combined term securitization and financing transaction allowing the client to sell securities to its investor clients
  • Represented a global investment banking, securities, and investment management client as sponsor and initial purchaser in connection with a term securitization of economic participations
  • George Mason University School of Law, 2013, J.D.
  • Georgetown University, 2010, B.A., cum laude
  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Banking and Finance Law, Washington, DC (2024, 2025)