Ellen L. Marks

Ellen Marks is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Finance Departments. She handles complex and innovative financial transactions and restructurings with a particular focus on securitization and structured finance. She also handles financial regulatory matters and has extensive knowledge of the federal securities laws, the federal banking laws and their related regulations, including changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act.
 
Chambers USA 2011 ranked Ms. Marks as a leading Capital Markets-Securitization lawyer where she earned praise for her “drive, initiative and leadership in spearheading the regulatory issues.”
 
Ms. Marks is active in the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, currently serving its Committee on Securitization and Structured Finance as chair of its Comment Letter Subcommittee, and is also Co-chair of the American Securitization Forum’s Outside Counsel Subforum. She has chaired the drafting committees for numerous ABA projects and comment letters, including preparing Securitization in the Post-Crisis Economy: An ABA Business Law Section White Paper and comment letters to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on its proposed securitization safe harbor and to the Securities and Exchange Commission on its proposed significant revisions of Regulation AB.