Howard Mulligan

Howard Mulligan is a partner in the Corporate & Business practice group at Greenspoon Marder. He focuses his practice on the intersecting disciplines of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, fund formation, commercial real estate, securities law, capital markets and business restructurings.

Mr. Mulligan has worked on a wide range of capital market transactions relating to public offerings, private placements, securitizations involving numerous asset classes, derivative transactions (including interest rate swaps, credit default swaps and total return swaps), business restructurings, purchases of assets from bankruptcy estates and more. He has been involved with acquisitions and dispositions of cannabis and hemp related assets, equipment lease portfolios and structured products, purchases and sales of commercial real estate, including “B” notes and mezzanine loans, as well as restructurings of synthetic transactions. Mr. Mulligan’s practice has been supplemented by advising clients on SEC compliance as well as acting as a consultant to various law firms and providing expert services and regulatory advice on structured finance.

Recently, Mr. Mulligan has specialized in providing advice to funds in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors with regard to formation, structuring, regulatory, and compliance matters.

He has testified before the House Financial Services Committee on topics relating to structured finance and commercial lending. Mr. Mulligan is a sough-after speaker and has frequently served as a panelist at asset-backed industry conferences, including The American Securitization Forum (and its various successors), The Equipment Leasing Association, and Information Management Network. He has frequently appeared on the Fox Business Network and Bloomberg News regarding structured finance matters.

While at Notre Dame Law School, Mr. Mulligan was the Executive Editor of The Notre Dame Law Review. Prior to joining Greenspoon Marder, he was a partner at a mid-sized full-service corporate law firm based in New York.