Description
This book brings together in one place in-depth information about how the financial crisis is affecting the investment banking and mortgage industries, how regulators are responding, what reforms are in the works, and how states are responding to the tsunami of mortgage foreclosures. It also highlights the major litigation coming out of the crisis including lawsuits against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and IndyMac. Finally, it includes reproductions of court filings in several of these cases that attorneys can use as models for their own work product.
Features
- Includes reproductions of court documents that provides models for filings
- Provides news articles discussing up-to-date developments in key cases
- Provides Treasury Department notices that alert readers to the government's regulatory efforts
- Includes commentaries on the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae takeovers, the investment bank crashes, and the federal bailout