SEDA Experts professionals have worked on numerous disputes involving indenture trustee duties and responsibilities, as well as other fiduciary duty claims. Indenture trustees play a critical role in various complex structured credit transactions such as CDOs, CLOs, RMBSs, and CMBSs among other. Our experts' industry experience in roles such as indenture trustee and other related fiduciary positions allows us to offer invaluable expertise acquired throughout our careers as industry professionals. This includes assessing roles and responsibilities of an indenture trustee and the transaction’s compliance with the respective governing documents.

Our team possesses extensive industry experience in collateral and fund administration, covering a diverse range of assets, including syndicated leveraged loans, corporate bonds, equities, structured credit securities, and derivatives. While serving as fund administrators, we have been responsible for independent Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations, managing complex fee arrangements, overseeing various fund structures (including master and feeder funds), and ensuring ongoing reconciliation and reporting for investors and accounting purposes.

The role of a fund administrator has taken on more scrutiny by regulators, investors and market participants, especially in the wake of several Ponzi schemes and assets misappropriation by managers that were uncovered after the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Fund administrators are expected and perceived to be an independent third party retained by the fund and act as gatekeepers, mitigating the possibility of asset misappropriation and or misrepresentations by the fund manager and other fund related parties.

Our experts have not only worked directly as collateral and fund administrators, but also provided expert reports and testimony on fund related cases.

SEDA’s experts have both industry and litigation expert consulting experience in connection with mortgage servicing, more specifically master servicer and special servicer arrangements. These arrangements often take on complex fee structures as well as complex collection processes that give rise to potential liability and consequently litigation and disputes.

Our experts ran various mortgage insurance and guaranty firms and provided monoline insurance services to various structured credit transactions. SEDA´s experts have provided written experts reports and testified to some of these issues.

Mortgage Financing and Mortgage Agencies: Our experts are former Directors and senior officials at the FHFA, where they dealt with the various mortgage financing agencies such as Freddie Mac, Fannies and Gennie Mae throughout some of the most troubled financial markets times. SEDA´s experts bring both industry and regulatory compliance expertise when it comes to the mortgage financing and structured credit funds space, as well as origination and servicing.