Responding to Questions on the Transfer of Residential Mortgage Loans in Securitizations

Recently, in addition to questions regarding certain residential mortgage foreclosure processing improprieties, concerns have been expressed regarding the validity of certain transfers of residential mortgage loans in securitization transactions. We believe that these concerns are unfounded. To help clarify issues regarding the assignment process for residential mortgage loans, we have prepared the following questions and answers. These questions and answers are not intended to be comprehensive or to address every issue or situation but, rather, are intended to provide a general overview and explanation of matters related to mortgage loan transfers.

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SEC Proxy Access Seminar: Video Now Available

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted its final rule on "proxy access," perhaps the most sweeping reform in decades regarding the way directors of public companies are elected. On September 21, 2010, Hunton & Williams hosted a panel on the SEC's proxy access rule and related corporate governance implications of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Panelists included a proxy solicitor, senior in-house counsel of a public company, an executive compensation consultant and our corporate governance attorneys.

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