Michael Braun is a Senior Counsel to d’QM. He leads d’QM’s structured finance practice area and manages the life and annuity insurance recovery practice area. Mr. Braun also litigates life and annuity product issues and interpleaders.
Prior to becoming Senior Counsel at DOCB, Mr. Braun was a partner in the securitization departments at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, McKee Nelson LLP, and Brown and Wood LLP (now known as Sidley). He was instrumental in the development of Skadden’s structured finance practice in California and the McKee Nelson structured finance practice in 2002. His thirty-year practice involved representing major investment and commercial banks, issuers, loan originators, and investors in complex structured finance and other finance transactions.
Mr. Braun has served as dealer counsel on single-family and multi-family FNMA and FHLMC mortgage transactions. He has extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating disclosure and transaction documents relating to mortgage and asset-backed securitizations. Mr. Braun’s experience includes repurchase financings, as well as whole loan and other asset purchases. Mr. Braun’s mortgage securitization experience includes REMIC and non-REMIC securitizations of performing and non-performing residential mortgage loans, as well as closed-end and revolving home equity loans, second lien mortgage loans, reverse mortgages, manufactured housing contracts, small commercial mortgage loans, mixed-use mortgage loans, and resecuritizations of private label and GSE collateral.
Speeches and Publications
On April 8, 2025, Michelle d’Arcambal, Andrew MacRae, and Michael Braun gave a presentation entitled “Can You Get It Back?: Strategies for Recovering Overpayment of Insurance and Annuity Proceeds,” at the 2025 Easten Claims Conference. The presentation focused on recovering overpaid or incorrectly paid insurance benefits.