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Tom Deutsch

Deputy Executive Director

American Securitization Forum

Tom Deutsch is the Deputy Executive Director of the American Securitization Forum (ASF).  Mr. Deutsch works with ASF's broad membership to develop consensus and implement advocacy initiatives on legal, regulatory, accounting and legislative matters, such as industry-wide mortgage servicing standards, securities regulation implementation efforts, amicus briefs, and comment letters.  He also develops and implements various aspects of member education initiatives, such as the annual ASF industry conference, ASF Weekly Reports, Sunset Seminars, Securitization Institute, and the American Securitization journal.  He was named by Institutional Investor Magazine as a Rising Star of both Fixed Income and Securitization in 2008.

Mr. Deutsch previously served as an Associate in the Capital Markets Department of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he represented issuers and underwriters in various structured finance offerings, including residential mortgage-backed securitizations and asset-backed securitizations.  He also served as an Associate at McKee Nelson LLP, where he focused on residential mortgage-backed securitizations.  In addition, Mr. Deutsch was an Annenberg Legal Fellow at the Federal Communications Commission and worked in the offices of U.S. Senators Bob Dole, Nancy Landon Kassebaum and Trent Lott in Washington D.C.

Mr. Deutsch earned his Juris Doctoris from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also enrolled in the Wharton School's Ph.D. program in Public Policy and Management. He has also earned a Master of Science in Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science in addition to a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors and a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis.


The American Securitization Forum is a broad-based professional forum of over 380 organizations that are active participants in the U.S. securitization market. Among other roles, ASF members act as investors, insurers, issuers, financial intermediaries, rating agencies and professional advisers working on securitization transactions. ASF’s mission includes building consensus, pursuing advocacy and delivering education on behalf of the securitization markets and its participants.  Additional information about the ASF, its members and activities may be found on ASF’s internet website at www.americansecuritization.com.
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