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Court dismisses ERISA case concerning investments in mortgage-backed securities

  • Williams Mullen
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 16 2013

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a case brought against Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc

What matters: A review of 2011 and 2012

  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 1 2013

As you know, the last two years have seen a somewhat improved, but by no means robust, business climate. At the same time, structural shifts in the

No good deed goes unpunished: fiduciaries may seek contribution from co-fiduciaries

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 14 2012

In Guididas, plaintiffs were participants of the Community National Bank Corporation (“CNBC”) Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the “Plan”

Bank on it: the Sixth Circuit holds regions bank not liable for an investment advisor’s scheme to defraud

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 26 2012

The Sixth Circuit recently issued a decision that commercial banks around the country will applaud

Claims against bank holding ERISA plan assets were properly dismissed

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2012

On June 7th, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of claims asserted against a bank at which an ERISA fiduciary held plan assets

Federal Court dismisses claims against Bear Stearns based on RMBS credit ratings

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2012

On March 30, 2012, Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed claims based on credit ratings brought by several retirement and pension funds against Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. and related affiliates in connection with the sale of RMBS pass-through certificates

Federal court dismisses claims against Bank of New York Mellon

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2012

On April 3, 2012, Judge William H. Pauley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed with prejudice nearly all claims against Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, by four plaintiff pension funds in a putative class action relating to 530 Countrywide RMBS trusts worth $424 billion

First Amendment does not protect credit raters

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2011

On November 12th, a Federal District Court granted in part and denied in part defendants' motions to dismiss a securities fraud lawsuit

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - October 10, 2011

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 10 2011

The theme of this past week is anger, primarily espoused by the Occupy Wall Street protests who continue to garner attention for their disenchantment with the financial services industry, corporate America and government

Officers and directors of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., sued by state pension plan to repay $88.3 million OFAC penalty

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 23 2011

On September 6, 2011, the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System filed a shareholder derivative action in the Southern District of New York against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“JPMC”) and 11 of its officers and directors seeking repayment of an $88.3 million civil penalty paid by JPMC as part of its settlement with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury for alleged violations of OFAC’s sanctions regulations

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