03 Mar 2026
Winston & Strawn Welcomes Partner Shan Haider to Structured Finance Practice
"Winston & Strawn has hired Partner Shan Haider in New York to its Structured Finance/Transactions practice, focusing on residential asset finance, MSR transactions, whole‑loan trades and securitizations."
Haider advises institutional capital providers in deploying capital through various investment vehicles in highly regulated markets and provides bespoke solutions to meet strategic objectives. He regularly represents asset managers, specialty finance companies, private funds, registered investment companies and originators across a broad range of consumer and real estate‑backed asset classes. He joins the firm shortly after the arrivals of Transactions Partners David Love and Patrick Valenti in Chicago.
His practice spans whole‑loan acquisitions and forward flow arrangements, MSR acquisitions and financings, back‑leverage facilities, securitizations—including RMBS and pass‑through structures—and commercial and esoteric asset‑backed transactions, including CRE CLOs. He brings specialized expertise in risk retention structuring, NAIC‑sensitive capital solutions, facilitating open‑end mutual fund investments in private asset‑based credits and designing investment platforms for asset managers in regulated environments. His strong residential focus complements Winston & Strawn’s Residential Asset Finance & Securitization platform and further adds to the firm’s capabilities in whole‑loan trades, excess MSR acquisitions, MSR financings and repackaged assets.