As we noted in our Fraud and Commercial Loan Transactions: Post-Judgment Legal Strategies Webinar, fraud in commercial loan transactions presents significant challenges for creditors seeking to recover funds. Once a judgment...more
Join Baker Donelson for an insightful panel discussion focusing on implementing best practices when suspicions of fraud arise after the closing of a commercial loan transaction. Our panelists will evaluate several common...more
Mortgage lenders received some good news from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals last week! In Failla v. Citibank, N.A., Case No. 15-15626 (11th Cir. Oct. 4, 2016), the Court affirmed a bankruptcy judge’s order for a...more
On August 31, 2016, United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert A. Mark ruled that a bankruptcy trustee can pursue avoidance of property transfers that occurred nearly ten years before the debtor’s bankruptcy filing. The...more
By most accounts, a decision from the Georgia Court of Appeals last September represents a sea change in the law governing judicial confirmation of foreclosure sales and post-foreclosure deficiency claims. Indeed, the Court's...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its first enforcement order of 2014 against a St. Louis mortgage lender, Fidelity Mortgage Corporation (FMC), and its president, Mark Figert. The January 16 consent order...more