Clifford Chance LLP

Jim Cotins is a partner in the Structured Capital Markets Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. He has extensive experience in structured finance, including all aspects of the securitization of loans and securities backed by commercial real estate, with a primary focus on CMBS, including multi-seller conduits, single borrower securitizations, CRE CLOs, net-lease securitizations and single-family rental securitizations (including both single borrower and multi-borrower deals).

Jim regularly represents all the main participants in commercial real estate-related securitizations, including issuers, underwriters, collateral managers, loan sellers and a nationally recognized statistical rating agency organization. He also represents investors in the acquisition and financing of all types of commercial real estate-related assets, including whole loans, B-Notes, participations, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, bank loans, CMBS and REIT debt.

Washington University in St. Louis (BA) 1986, Boston University School of Law (JD, cum laude) 1989 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 1990 Joined Clifford Chance 2019