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DOJ News & Litigation Updates - ITT Cannon to Pay $11 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations - ITT Cannon (ITT), a division of ITT Inc., has agreed to pay $11 million to settle whistleblower claims that it supplied...more
Nomura Holdings, Inc. (“Nomura”) and its U.S. affiliates agreed to pay $480 million to resolve claims brought by the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ“) for alleged misrepresentations in connection with RMBS offerings...more
Agencies Issue Proposal on Method to Adjust Threshold for Exempting Small Loans from Special Appraisal Requirements - On July 22, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office...more
Chancellor Carol McCoy allowed a Tennessee state retirement fund’s securities suit over decades-old RMBS purchases to continue last week, holding that time doesn’t run against the king – even on statutes of repose....more
On January 29, Morgan Stanley and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation agreed to settle five suits encompassing state and federal claims alleging that Morgan Stanley made misrepresentations in offering residential...more
On Friday, January 22, 2016, eleven banks, including Merrill Lynch, RBS, and Barclays, agreed to settle claims brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia in a 2014 action alleging misrepresentations as to the nature, quality,...more
On January 12, 2016, the Appellate Division, First Department, of the New York State Supreme Court affirmed a trial court order granting Morgan Stanley’s motion to dismiss claims brought by Dexia SA’s subsidiary FSA Asset...more
Federal Reserve, OCC, FCA, FHFA and FDIC Adopt Joint Final Rule on Swap Margin Requirements - On October 22, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC"), the Federal Reserve Board (the "Board"), the Farm...more
On October 27, 2015, Justice Eileen Bransten of the New York Supreme Court issued a Decision and Order granting in part and denying in part cross motions for summary judgment brought by Countrywide and Ambac in an RMBS action...more
The SEC and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut charged three senior traders with fraud by misrepresenting pricing information to clients regarding securities traded in opaque markets. In those markets...more
European Commission Unveils Tax Transparency Package - The European Commission has laid out its plans in a new Tax Transparency Package to clamp down on tax deals made between EU governments and multi-national...more
On March 3, 2015, Justice Marcy S. Friedman of the New York Supreme Court granted in part and dismissed in part Defendant Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc.’s Motion to Dismiss an action in which it was said to have...more
On October 15, Judge Donovan Frank of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, granted in part and denied in part Greenpoint Mortgage Funding’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Residential Funding Co., an...more
On June 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a November 28, 2011, decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in which the district court declined to approve a settlement...more
On February 14, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted in part defendant Sand Canyon Corporation’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint of plaintiff Homeward...more
On January 22, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York trimmed claims from a lawsuit brought by the National Credit Union Administration Board, as liquidating agent for various...more
On November 26, Justice Melvin Schweitzer of the New York Supreme Court granted in part and denied in part Goldman Sachs’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by HSH Nordbank. Justice Schweitzer dismissed claims arising out...more
On October 11, Royal Park Investments SA/NV sued several Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) entities in New York state court over its purchase of $1.6 billion worth of residential mortgage-backed securities. At issue in the suit...more
On September 23, the National Credit Union Administration (as liquidator for the Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union and Members United Corporate Federal Credit Union), filed nine separate suits in the federal district...more
On September 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal, as time-barred, of a class action brought by RMBS certificateholders against UBS over losses related to the RMBS. Filing suit in...more
On August 21, a collection of investors including Phoenix Light SF Limited, Blue Heron Funding II Ltd. and Kleros Preferred Funding V PLC (the Investors) brought suit against a number of JP Morgan and Bear Stearns entities in...more
As reported yesterday in the New York Law Journal, Justice Marcy Friedman of the Commercial Division in Manhattan will now be assigned any new case filed in New York Supreme Court that alleges fraud or misrepresentation...more
On May 28, the FHFA, acting on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, dismissed its lawsuit against Citigroup Inc. and certain of its affiliates and employees after reaching a settlement with defendants. The lawsuit related to...more
On February 6, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of monoline insurer Assured Guarantee Municipal Corp. against Flagstar Bank FSB after presiding over a bench trial seeking damages for breach of...more
The legal press is abuzz with reports of a New York federal judge’s award of a $90.1 million judgment to mortgage insurer Assured Guaranty Corp. after a lengthy trial in its suit against Flagstar Bank FSB....more