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Middle east update - July 2012

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
  • -
  • July 17 2012

This Update is produced on a monthly basis

General counsel update: 31 May 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 31 2012

This is the twenty-ninth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

No relief following breach of trust

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 28 2012

Where a fraud is perpetrated in a conveyancing transaction, it is often an innocent party that ends up paying the price

Non-bank residential mortgage lenders and originators subject to anti-money laundering and suspicious activities reporting obligations

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2012

In February 2012, the Department of Treasury issued a final rule at parts 1010 and 1029, to now define non-bank residential mortgage lenders and originators as loan or finance companies for the purpose of requiring them to establish anti-money laundering programs and to report suspicious activities under the Bank Secrecy Act

Doing business in Russia

  • CMS, Russia
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  • Russia
  • -
  • April 6 2012

Under the Constitution of the Russian Federation, adopted on 12 December 1993 (as amended), the President is the Head of State

Appraisal Institute advises US Sentencing Commission to require appraisals

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 14 2012

The Appraisal Institute urged the U.S. Sentencing Commission to require the use of real estate appraisals when calculating loss in mortgage fraud cases

Mortgage fraud leads to return of funds to lender

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 31 2011

A lender is entitled to the return of its money where the solicitors it instructs complete a mortgage transaction with fraudsters in breach of the terms of its instructions

SDNY dismisses claims against Goldman Sachs

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 3 2011

On September 28, 2011, Judge Pauley of the Southern District of New York dismissed a suit brought by Ladesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg against Goldman Sachs & Co. and TCW Asset Management alleging common law fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and unjust enrichment in connection with the sale of $37 million in CDO notes collateralized by RMBS

FSA bans individual for mortgage fraud

  • Dentons
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 12 2011

FSA has banned Michael Lewis from carrying out any regulated activity for any person

Appraisal fraud risk drops, occupancy fraud risk rises

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2011

According to the quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Report from Interthinx, there was a 22 percent decline in property valuation fraud risk over the previous year

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