Banking Misconduct Blog


CMBS Mortgages and B Piece Buyers

CMBS Mortgages and B Piece Buyers

In today’s commercial real estate market, commercial loans are often pooled together to create commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS). These loan pools typically have several tranches. Each varies in credit quality and payment priority.
The first-to-be paid tranches of bondholders...



Economic Duress (Another Tale of LNR Partners Wrongdoing)

Economic Duress (Another Tale of LNR Partners Wrongdoing)

We are not a fan of special servicers, especially LNR Partners and CWCapital. Somewhere along the way, both companies forgot their mission and began to be motivated by their own financial gain and not the well-being of their clients, the public or property owners.
Few property owners can...

Special Servicers - Operating Without Oversight (LNR, CWCapital C-III)

[Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on our sister site, MahanyLaw in July of 2014. We have updated and reposted it here.] Special servicers are the folks that take over the handling of loans that are delinquent, in default, or believed to be troubled. In large, commercial mortgages,...

Special Servicing: the Ultimate Hardball Tactics

An article recently appeared on Syracuse.com. The title of the article was Inside Destiny USA’s Mortgage Emergency… Crisis or Hardball Bargaining? Destiny USA is the 6th largest retail mall in the United States. The journalist who wrote the article, Rick Moriarty, noted that the...

Special Servicers – Do They Answer to Anyone? CMBS Post

Anyone commercial property owner facing a special servicer soon learns the deck is stacked. Many commercial loans today are securitized and packages into loan pools. These pools are sold to a trust that is owned by institutional investors. Unlike a bank that has offices and employees, a CMBS trust...

Lone Star Funds – Distressed Investors or Vultures?

Distressed investing is the politically correct term these days for buyers of distressed properties. There will always be property owners that find themselves in over their heads. Sometimes their problems arise from unforeseen market events and at other times, it is just from being inexperienced or...

CMBS for Novice Investors

Understanding Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) can be a daunting task for the novice investor. As lender liability lawyers, we grapple with complex loan arrangements daily. We understand the jargon, the many different players in a CMBS transaction and how all the pieces fit together....

Court Okays Lawsuit Against BNY Mellon as Mortgage Trustee

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Manhattan gave a green light to a lawsuit filed by an investor against Bank of New York Mellon. The investor claims it lost over $1 billion because of BNY Mellon’s poor performance as trustee over several Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS)...