Williams Mullen Mezzanine Lending Video Series - Episode 4
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 146: Listen and Learn -- Mortgages and Priority
Mezzanine Lending Video Series (Episode 2)
Mezzanine Lending Video Series (Episode 1)
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - Credit Reporting: Truth be Told
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - Not a Normal Mortgage Crisis: How the Mortgage Industry Weathered the Pandemic
Credit Eco to Go Podcast: The XYZ’s of the PPP
Not a Normal Mortgage Crisis: How the Mortgage Industry Weathered the Pandemic
Applying for PPP Loan Before March 31st Deadline
Paycheck Protection Program – Common Questions and Updated Guidance
PPP Loan Recipients at Risk: Part Three
Advancing Agriculture: Security Interests and Article 9 Challenges (Part 1)
PPP Loan Recipients at Risk: Part Two
When Is Form 1099-C Required of Lenders? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 16]
PPP Loan Recipients at Risk: Part One
Employment Law Now IV-85- Updates on the PPP Loan Process and Loan Forgiveness
What Does UCRERA Mean For Creditors? [More with McGlinchey Ep. 13]
Law Brief: Elishama Rudolph and Rich Schoenstein Talk PPP Loan Forgiveness
Path Forward: Borrowing Base Redeterminations In A Restructuring World
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part IV - How Banks Think About Loan Defaults: Lessons for Borrowers in Troubled Times
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features smooth sailing through safe harbors, the English Court doing the cross-class...more
As 2021 runs in search of what’s new, we realize that the pandemic disruption has continued through 2021. The NMLS Ombudsman Meeting was held virtually and the upcoming American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators...more
Following a borrower default, when a bank was considering whether to enforce its security, a statutory implied term of reasonable care in a loan was of no consequence and it was not right to imply the term into a mortgage...more
The 2021 increase to California’s homestead exemption to up to $600,000 stands to change the legal and economic relationship of guarantors with their lenders and vendors who make loans or sell goods or services on...more
On August 13, 2020, the Oregon Bankers Association (“OBA”) and three Oregon-chartered banks filed a Complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the State of Oregon, Oregon’s Attorney General, and the Director of...more
The shuttered storefronts and grounded airplanes that by now have become an all too familiar image of the COVID-19 pandemic are quickly creating a ripple effect through the U.S. economy. As unemployment rises and Americans...more
On March 7, 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued Executive Order 202 declaring a state of emergency for the entire State of New York as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that time, the Governor has issued a series of...more
Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more
On January 9, 2017, an unpublished Minnesota Court of Appeals decision (BMO Harris Bank v. City Center Development, A16-0766 (Minn. Ct. App. Jan. 9, 2017)), held that Minn. Stat. § 576.25, subdivisions 5(a) and 5(b), set...more
As highlighted throughout this book, a significant development in the capital markets over the last two decades has been the arrival of real estate debt on the global stage as an asset class in its own right. Based on its...more
The Fourth District Court of Appeal recently affirmed its prior decision in Vidal v. Liquidation Properties, Inc., 104 So. 3d 1274 (4th DCA 2013). Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Hilary A. Williamson, Case No. 4D15-285, 2016 WL...more
On November 3, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its fall 2015 supervisory report concerning enforcement actions from May 2015 through August 2015. The Bureau highlights violations in the mortgage...more
The Mortgage Credit Directive (2014/17/EU) (MCD) requires that creditors create two illustrative examples for variable rate mortgages on the basis of a benchmark rate specified by the EBA. Consequently, the EBA has developed...more
Standing is one of the top issues in foreclosure case law. So it comes as no surprise that the issue of standing is also a common focal point for discovery disputes in foreclosures. It has become common foreclosure defense...more
In its Supervisory Highlights released earlier this summer, the CFPB reported its examination observations in consumer reporting, debt collection, mortgage origination and servicing, fair lending, and student loan servicing....more
On August 27, 2015, the CFPB issued two Technical Reports: one on the National Mortgage Database (NMDB), and the other on the National Survey of Mortgage Borrowers (NSMB). The NMDB project is a joint undertaking by the FHFA...more
Foreclosure: non-borrower owner of real property as tenants-in-common with borrower not required to sign mortgage for borrower to encumber only his interest in the property and non-borrower’s signature on mortgage reflected...more
Concerned about “increasing uncertainty surrounding regulatory oversight of these types of arrangements,” Wells Fargo is ending all of its roughly 200 mortgage marketing services and desk rental agreements with builders and...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reports that most borrowers benefit from electronic closings relating to the mortgage loan process. On August 5, 2015, the CFPB published its study on the benefits of electronic...more
On August 5, 2015, the CFPB issued a report on its study of the CFPB’s mortgage loan eClosing project and held a public forum addressing the study results. As we reported, the CFPB launched the eClosing project to determine...more