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Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review - April 22, 2013

by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 4/22/2013

Second Circuit Rejects Edge Act Jurisdiction in AIG RMBS Case - On April 19, the Second Circuit ruled that a lawsuit brought by American International Group (AIG) against several Bank of America entities involving...more

New York State Court Dismisses RMBS Fraud Suit Against UBS

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 4/18/2013

On April 5, New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich dismissed with prejudice a suit brought by six Loreley Financing entities against various UBS entities. Loreley alleged fraud stemming from UBS’s issuance of...more

Monoline Insurer Assured Sues RBS in Connection with $1.15 Billion RMBS Securitization

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 4/5/2013

On March 26, Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. sued RBS Securities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for fraud in connection with a financial guaranty insurance policy that Assured...more

Insights Into The Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force Priorities For 2013

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/1/2013

On March 20, 2013, Michael Bresnick, Executive Director of DOJ’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force gave a speech at the Exchequer Club of Washington, DC highlighting recent accomplishments of the Task Force and outlining...more

S.D.N.Y Denies Motion to Dismiss RMBS Claims Against JPMorgan Chase

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 3/5/2013

On February 26, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the federal district court for the Southern District of New York issued a memorandum explaining the reasoning for his September 2012 order denying JP Morgan’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review - March 4, 2013

by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/4/2013

In This Issue: *Financial Industry Developments - Amendments to Fed and OCC Foreclosure Consent Orders - Fed Proposed Rule on Systemically Important Financial Market Utilities - Rating Agency...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review - February 11, 2013

by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/14/2013

In This Issue: *RMBS Litigation - Assured Wins $90 Million in Damages in RMBS Breach of Contract Trial - DOJ Brings Civil Fraud Action Against S&P - S&P Seeks Declaration That Credit Ratings Are Immune From...more

DOJ Lawsuit Against S&P and McGraw Hill

by Russell Koonin, Philip R. Stein | Bilzin Sumberg Mortgage Repurchase Group on 2/14/2013

Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil suit in the Central District of California against Standard & Poor’s Financial Services (S&P) and its parent company McGraw-Hill. The suit alleges that S&P engaged in a...more

S&P Seeks Declaration That Credit Ratings Are Immune From Liability

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 2/11/2013

On February 5, two Standard & Poor’s entities filed a declaratory judgment action in the Southern District of South Carolina seeking to bar the South Carolina Attorney General from suing S&P under South Carolina’s Unfair...more

DOJ Brings Civil Fraud Action Against S&P

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 2/11/2013

On February 4, the Department of Justice filed a complaint in the Central District of California against two Standard & Poor’s entities in connection with credit ratings S&P provided for certain RMBS and CDOs....more

Trustee Sues Deutsche Bank Over $89 Million in RMBS Securities

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 2/4/2013

On January 28, HSBC Bank USA, acting in its capacity as Trustee for a single home equity loan trust, filed a complaint in the Supreme Court for the State of New York against DB Structured Products Inc., an affiliate of...more

Washington Mutual Settles RMBS Suit Brought by Union Central Life Insurance Co.

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 1/10/2013

On December 17, 2012, two Washington Mutual affiliates settled a lawsuit brought against them by Union Central Life Insurance Co. concerning $4.3 million in Washington Mutual-sponsored RMBS purchased by Union Central....more

Inside The Courts - December 2012

by Jay Kasner, Matthew Matule, Edward Micheletti, Peter Morrison, Charles Smith | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/7/2013

This issue of Inside the Courts, Skadden's securities litigation newsletter, includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected noteworthy cases principally decided from July to November 2012. This edition addresses...more

NCUA Files Its Largest MBS Suit To Date

by BuckleySandler LLP on 12/26/2012

On December 17, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) announced a lawsuit on behalf of four insolvent credit unions against a mortgage securitizer in which the agency alleges violations of federal and state...more

Court Dismisses In Part RMBS Suit Against Countrywide, Dismissed In Entirety Against Bank of America

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 12/18/2012

On December 6, Judge Mariana Pfaelzer of the United States District Court for the Central District of California dismissed in part claims brought by several insurance companies, including Minnesota Life Insurance Company, in...more

Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Claims Against Credit Rating Agencies

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 12/11/2012

On December 3, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a decision by Judge James K. Graham of the Southern District of Ohio dismissing, with prejudice, claims against three credit-rating agencies –...more

Court Dismisses FDIC RMBS Suit as Time-Barred

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 12/5/2012

On November 21, Judge Mariana Pfaelzer of the United States District Court for the Central District of California dismissed as time-barred an RMBS action brought against Countrywide by the FDIC as receiver for Strategic...more

IKB Files Suit Against Morgan Stanley Over $147M in RMBS

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 12/4/2012

On November 16, German lender IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG sued Morgan Stanley and related entities in the Supreme Court for the State of New York for $147 million in connection with the sale of RMBS....more

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