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FREDERICK L. FELDKAMP

Mr. Feldkamp is a retired partner of the law firm Foley & Lardner, LLP. He was a member of Foley’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice, and its Automotive and Energy Industry Teams. He has worked in the firm’s Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit offices and has advised clients on business, tax, regulatory, and financial law for the past four decades.

In 1973, Mr. Feldkamp provided the legal basis for Foley’s pioneering bankruptcy opinion that permitted issuance of America’s first rated private mortgage-backed security in the post-Depression era. Throughout the years, he has provided creative legal advice to support numerous securitization innovations that include:

• Several structures used to fund the retail and wholesale sale, and lease, of automobiles
• Creation of the largest foreign-owned Japanese mortgage service firm, through sponsorship of the largest nonbank financial-institution reorganization in Japan (2000)
• Utility transition securities, including the largest ABS offering of 1998
• The first stand-alone collateralized mortgage obligation (1983)
• Exemptive proceedings permitting several firsts, including grandfathering under Rule 2a-7, home loan conduit, and partial pool CMOs

His practice has included counseling U.S. and multinational corporations, international financial organizations, domestic and foreign regulatory agencies, and self-regulatory organizations on a variety of financial services matters. Mr. Feldkamp has consulted ...