James A. Brodsky

Jim, a law firm founding member, advises clients on strategic business initiatives, federal compliance and regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, and secondary mortgage market transactions.  As a former HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary, he has deep experience in FHA and Ginnie Mae (as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) requirements, issues and opportunities, and also is Co-General Counsel of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.

Jim also is a Director (and formerly Lead Director) of MFA Financial, Inc., a multi-billion dollar NYSE-listed REIT that invests, on a leveraged basis, in residential mortgage financial assets.

In addition, Jim is a Director of Enterprise Community Development, the nation’s fifth largest affordable housing developer and community owner with over a billion dollars of investments in 16,000 homes in 110 communities in the mid-Atlantic region.  Jim also is a Director of the Housing Partnership Equity Trust, LLC, a social purpose REIT that acquires and preserves naturally occurring affordable housing in partnership with leading non-profit apartment owners across the nation.

Jim formerly served as Chairman of a county housing finance agency that has issued over a billion dollars of mortgage revenue bonds.

Practice Areas

• Investigation and Enforcement
• Licensing & Approvals
• Regulatory Compliance
  • Federal Regulatory Compliance
  • State Regulatory Compliance
• Transactional and Corporate
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Governance

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1972
• Columbia University, M.S.E.E., 1968
• Cornell University, B.S., 1967

Admissions

• District of Columbia