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Alison Frankel: Kneecapping the banks in remaining FHFA MBS suits

Alison Frankel: Kneecapping the banks in remaining FHFA MBS suits

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I suspect that the American public doesn’t have much sympathy to spare for the big-time lawyers whose firms have reaped untold millions of dollars defending Too Big to Fail institutions against accusations that they caused the Great Recession. But those lawyers sure cast themselves and their clients in a pitiable light at a securities conference at the New York Bar Association on Tuesday. Brad Karp of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, best known for representing Citigroup, said he was “relentlessly pessimistic” about the near-term litigation prospects for banks, given the de facto impossibility of standing up to threats from government enforcers. Scott Musoff of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who defended UBS (and is still defending Societe Generale) against securities fraud claims by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, noted that FHFA’s wards, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were quasi-private concerns when they took on risk from securitized subprime mortgages, yet claims by FHFA are treated as though they’re asserted by a government regulator. And Julie North of Cravath, Swaine & Moore questioned whether it’s fair to preclude banks from attributing investor losses in mortgage-backed securities to the broad economic downturn and not to bank misrepresentations.

[REUTERS]

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