Charles A. Sweet

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Charlie Sweet’s practice focuses on federal securities law and corporate matters. He counsels public and private companies, their directors and officers, investment banks and investors regarding securities registration and reporting matters relating to both corporate and asset-backed securities as well as governance issues, stock exchange listing requirements and insider trading restrictions.

His transactional practice emphasizes public offerings and private placements of securities as well as mergers and acquisitions. His securitization transactional experience includes innovative structures, such as the first automobile lease securitizations. He also has a broad background in other types of transactions, including partnerships and joint ventures, venture capital financings, commercial credit and liquidity facilities, equity-based compensation plans, and commercial contracts of a variety of types. He has represented clients in a wide array of industries, from banking, energy, airline and agriculture to software, telecommunications and biotechnology.

At the University of Texas School of Law, Charlie was a member of the Order of the Coif, a member of the Chancellors (the school’s highest honorary organization) and an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.

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Moderator, Brave New World — How New Laws, Rules and Policies Will Affect Securitization Deals and Documents, ABA 2013 Spring Meeting, Washington, DC (April 5, 2013)
Panelist, Reg AB II Proposals and Potential Rule Outcomes, ASF 2013 Conference, Las Vegas, NV (Jan. 27-30, 2013)
Panelist, MBS REITs Roundtable, ABS East 2012, Miami, Fla. (Oct. 23, 2012)
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) webinar, Asset Securitization Report (Oct. 10, 2008)

Publications

Co-author, “CFTC Issues Further Time-Limited No-Action Relief for Securitization Vehicles Subject to Commodity Pool Regulations,” Bingham.com (April 2013)
Co-author, “CFTC Issues Broader Interpretive Exclusion From Commodity Pool Regulation for Securitizations, and No-Action Advice “Grandfathering” Some Securitizations and Extending Temporary Registration Relief Until March 31, 2013,” Bingham.com (December 2012)
Co-author, “CFTC Issues Exclusion From Commodity Pool Regulation for Certain Securitizations, and Temporary Registration Relief for Securitizations and Other Swap-Based Commodity Pools,” Bingham.com (October 2012)
Author, “CFPB Proposes Amendments to Mortgage Servicing Provisions of Truth in Lending Act and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act,” Bingham.com (September 2012)
Author, “SEC Proposes Amendments to Rule 506 and Rule 144A to Permit General Solicitation and General Advertising, Reducing Barriers to Capital Formation,” Bingham.com (September 2012)
“Will the SEC's Proposed Credit Risk Retention Rules Fuel Interest in Mortgage REITs? A Summary of the Proposed Rules and Tax Concerns for Mortgage REIT Securitizations,” Journal of Taxation of Financial Products, Vol. 10 Issue 1 (2012)
Co-author, “SEC Adopts Final Rules Mandating Disclosure of Repurchase Requests for Public Securitizations and Requiring Due Diligence Reviews ,” Bingham.com (Jan. 25, 2011)
Co-author, “Summary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,” Bingham.com (Oct. 12, 2010)

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