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Can a usury savings clause save the lender?

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 19 2011

Usury savings clauses are commonly found in loan agreements

Bad boys get spanked: New York courts uphold recourse guaranties

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 19 2011

Two recent New York cases have provided additional clarity with regard to the enforceability of "recourse carve-out" (or "bad boy") guaranties in commercial mortgage transactions

Foreign bank account reporting and enforcement update: U.S. files suit against HSBC seeking account records

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2011

The United States government has opened another front in its campaign against U.S. taxpayers using secret offshore bank accounts to evade their tax responsibilities, with the Justice Department filing a lawsuit seeking the names of Americans believed to be hiding funds in bank accounts at HSBC in India

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania clarifiesand expandsscope of attorney-client privilege

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 9 2011

On February 23, 2011, in Gillard v. AIG Insurance Company, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court clarified a century of ambiguous and inconsistent case law and expressly recognized that communications from an attorney to a clientnot just communications from a client to an attorneyare privileged under Pennsylvania law

Destiny USA v. Citigroup

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2011

In the March 2010 Real Estate Update, we reported on the 2009 trial and appellate court decisions against Citigroup relating to the Destiny USA project in upstate New York

The Ibanez case: Massachusetts rejects undocumented mortgage assignments

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2011

The Massachusetts Supreme Court recently issued a highly-anticipated opinion in the case of U.S. Bank National Association v. Ibanez

The Justice Department closes the UBS case while the IRS announces that a second amnesty program is likely

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 30 2010

The Justice Department has dismissed its landmark case against Swiss banking giant UBS AG, announcing that the bank has successfully complied with the terms of its Deferred Prosecution Agreement entered into in February 2009

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