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Non-Recourse Carve-Outs: Borrower and Guarantor Considerations

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The Federal Reserve's most recent Financial Stability Report addressed what many industry watchers had been convinced of for some time: the commercial real estate sector is in a precarious state. The Federal Reserve Bank...more

Troutman Pepper

NY Court of Appeals Clarifies 90-Day Foreclosure Notice Issues In New York

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On February 14, 2023, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the Appellate Division, Second Department’s Kessler decision, which had applied a strict application of Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law § 1304, also...more

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The Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act is Now Law

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On December 30, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA) after the bill’s passage by both the New York state senate and the assembly. FAPA is a direct response to a New...more

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Copper Creek Confirms That Bankruptcy Discharges Have No Effect on the Statute of Limitations in Washington State

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As we previously noted, the statute of limitations on actions to enforce a note or deed of trust can be a brutally effective sword for borrowers in Washington State. Under the six-year limitations period of RCW 7.28.300, a...more

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Biden Administration Issues Regulatory Freeze On New Agency Rules

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In this Issue. In one of its first acts after being installed on January 20, the Biden Administration issued a regulatory freeze on new agency rules that have been adopted but are not yet effective; in one of its final acts...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of Act 6 To Residential Mortgage Foreclosures (Sort Of)

When the loan documents provide for confession of judgment and the collateral encumbered by the mortgage securing the loan is commercial real property, the foreclosure process in Pennsylvania is straightforward.  The lender...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Ninth Circuit Weighs in on “Preemptive” Challenges to Lender’s Authority to Foreclose

Can a California real property owner challenge a lender’s authority to foreclose before a foreclosure sale has occurred?  It’s looking less likely with each new appellate opinion....more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

A Notice of Trustee’s Sale Does Not Necessarily “Disturb Possession”

Flashback: Five years ago, Money and Dirt covered the Salazar v. Thomas opinion from California’s Fifth District Court of Appeal holding that a Notice of Default does not “disturb possession” sufficiently to start the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A Good Day for Lenders: Texas Supreme Court Rules that Lenders Still Entitled to Equitable Subrogation for Non-compliant Home...

On April 24, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court upheld a lender’s right to equitable subrogation for non-compliant home equity loans, ruling that lenders who fail to cure within the statutorily mandated 60-day period may recoup...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

"No Harm, No Foul:” Suit to Set Aside Foreclosure Sale for Failure to Comply With Deed of Trust Doomed By Failure to Allege That...

The opinion of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Young-Allen v. Bank of America provides both hope for lenders frustrated by borrowers who delay inevitable foreclosure sales by requiring the lender to comply with every...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Can a Loan Modification Waive the Borrower’s Right of Reinstatement?

Loans secured by a deed of trust typically provide that upon default (commonly, missed interest payments) the lender may elect to “accelerate” the loan, making the entire balance of principal and interest due....more

Locke Lord LLP

California Court of Appeal Rejects Tort Duty in Reviewing Borrower for a Loan Modification, Highlighting Split Among Intermediate...

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On August 5, 2019, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District held that a lender owes no “tort duty of care during a loan modification negotiation.” Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., ___ Cal.Rptr.3d ___, 2019 WL...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

The Tender Rule — Reinstatement and Redemption are Different

Under California’s “tender rule,” a borrower suing to halt or unwind a wrongful foreclosure sale generally must allege that it tendered the amounts due on the loan before the sale. The rationale underlying the tender rule is...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Not All Deed of Trust Attorney Fee Clauses are Created Equal

Lenders who prevail on claims arising from a deed of trust can always recover their attorney fees from the losing party as long as the deed of trust says something about fee recovery, right? It’s not that simple....more

Vedder Price

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter - April 2018

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Aircraft Lender Not Responsible for Customer’s Structuring Strategy - Most business aircraft purchasers, especially high net worth individuals, rely on advice from their various resources when acquiring such expensive...more

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Global Private Equity Newsletter - Winter/Spring 2018 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance - Did you just commit to...

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The question of when parties to a potential transaction actually become bound to each other is obviously an important one, and sometimes the answer can be surprising, or less than entirely clear. A recent Texas Court of...more

Snell & Wilmer

What Types of “Damages Claims” Survive a Trustee’s Sale?

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Arizona’s trustee’s sale statutory scheme provides for the waiver of all defenses and objections to a trustee’s sale that: (i) are not raised prior to the sale, and (ii) do not result in an injunction against the sale going...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Dealing on Written Standard Terms of Business—Guidance from the English Court of Appeal

The English Court of Appeal considers whether the use of model form agreements could constitute dealing “on written standard terms of business” The decision will give comfort to lenders who use precedents or model form...more

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North Carolina Supreme Court Adopts "Substantial Competent Evidence" Requirement for Borrowers Asserting "True Value" Defense in...

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On Friday, May 5, 2017, in a major victory for lenders, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the North Carolina Court of Appeals’s decision in United Community Bank v. Wolfe. In July 2015, the Court of Appeals decided in...more

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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court: Contractual Waivers of Civil Jury Trial Are Enforceable

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Last year the Wisconsin Court of Appeals threw businesses a curveball when it held that a contractual waiver of the right to a jury trial was unenforceable. The holding of the case, Parsons v. Associated Banc-Corp., 2016...more

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Take It or Leave It

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals recently found that a “take or leave it offer” extended by a lender to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty was not duress. SK Food Corp., et al. v. FirstBank, No....more

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US Lenders - Missing Parenthesis Could Cost You a Bundle

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As the case of NNN Realty shows, years of litigation and legal costs could be avoided with proper use of punctuation marks. A lender made a secured real estate loan to several entities who owned the real estate as tenants in...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Careful Who You Trust. A Lender Can Be Liable For The Negligence And Misrepresentations Of Its Loan Servicers, Even Absent Any...

In the recent case of Daniels v. Select Portfolio Serving, Inc., the California Court of Appeal has held that a lender may be liable for the negligence and misrepresentations of the lender’s servicer, without any contractual...more

Burr & Forman

Sixth Circuit Weighs in on TCPA “Prior Express Consent”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently addressed both the timing and scope of “prior express consent” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The plaintiff in Stephen M. Hill v. Homeward...more

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6th Circuit Rules Prior Express Consent Defeats Mortgagor TCPA Claim Against Lender

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On August 21, the Cincinnati-based United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit issued its ruling in Hill v. Homeward Residential, Inc., 2015 WL 4978464 (6th Cir. August 21, 2015), and affirmed a jury verdict...more

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