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Justice Department brandishes rarely used weaponFIRREAin full-scale assault on S&P, and California joins the battle with separate state False Claims Act complaint

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2013

The Justice Department's February 4, 2013 lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Ratings Services ("S&P"), a subsidiary of

DOJ files a significant market crisis case against S&P

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 5 2013

The Department of Justice brought what is perhaps the most significant market crisis case to date, named as defendants rating agency Standard &

CIFG sues Bank of America over RMBS insurance policies

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 3 2012

On November 20, CIFG sued Bank of America in Supreme Court for the State of New York concerning five financial guaranty policies issued in connection with two structured transactions backed by 22 RMBS

Lessons from the market crisis: two new cases, the end of another

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 18 2012

The SEC filed two settled actions at the end of last week tied to the residential mortgaged backed securities market

The first case for the President’s Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 3 2012

The President’s Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, announced earlier this year in the State of the Union speech, brought its first case

Bank Hapoalim brings $361m RMBS lawsuit against JPMorgan

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 20 2012

On August 10, Bank Hapoalim BM, an Israeli bank, filed a summons with notice against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York state court in connection with its purchase of $361 million in residential mortgage-backed securitites

FDIC files five lawsuits against bank entities over RMBS

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 20 2012

On August 10, the FDIC in its capacity as receiver for Colonial Bank filed five lawsuits three in Alabama state court, one in New York federal court, and one in California federal court seeking $741 million in damages from a number of investment banks, including Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup, Inc., and others, for making allegedly false and misleading statements that induced Colonial Bank into buying mortgage-backed securities

Sealink brings $587m RMBS lawsuit against Goldman Sachs

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 20 2012

On August 13, Sealink Funding Ltd. filed a summons with notice against Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York state court over its purchase of nearly $587 million in residential mortgage-backed securities

Second Circuit upholds dismissal of $37 million CDO suit against Goldman Sachs

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2012

On April 19, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg (“Landesbank”) lawsuit against Goldman Sachs & Co. (“Goldman Sachs.”

MetLife sues Morgan Stanley over $757 million in RMBS

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2012

On April 25, 2012, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (“MetLife”) filed suit in New York State Court against Morgan Stanley

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