Blank Rome LLP

PUBLICATIONS

• That Sinking Feeling: Lessons Gleaned From Recent Maritime Bankruptcies

  [Article]
  ABF Journal
  March 2013
  Marc E. Richards and Stephen T. Whelan
  

• Don’t Be Left ‘High and Dry’ — Maritime Lenders Can Glean Lessons from Recent Bankruptcies

  [Article]
  Monitor
  January/February 2013
  Marc E. Richards and Stephen T. Whelan
  

• 11th Circuit Upholds Fraudulent Transfer Claims Against Lenders in TOUSA

  [Alert]
  Commercial Finance Alert
  June 2012
  Mathew S. Rotenberg
  

• Blank Rome Closed More Than 80 Reportable Transactions in 2011

  [Alert]
  Corporate & Securities Deal Diary
  2012
  Alan L. Zeiger, Gary R. Goldenberg and Alan H. Lieblich
  

• Secured Lender Loses to IP Owner in Dispute Over Proceeds of Trademarked Inventory

  [Alert]
  Commercial Finance Alert
  February 2012
  Robert B. Stein
  

• Third Circuit Revives Claims for Deepening Insolvency and Breaches of Fiduciary Duties In Action Against Lemington Home Officers and Directors

  [Article]
  Bankruptcy Law Watch
  January 18, 2012
  Josef W. Mintz
  

• U.S. Trustee Office Proposes New Fee Application Guidelines

  [Article]
  Bankruptcy Law Watch
  November 23, 2011
  

• Reporting Thresholds under New Form PF for Registered Investment Advisers Managing Hedge Funds, CLOs and CDOs

  [Alert]
  Financial Services Alert
  November 2011 (No. 1)
  Thomas R. Westle, Stephen T. Whelan and Grant E. Buerstetta
  

• Can a Refinancing be "Collapsed" with a Prior Leveraged Acquisition and Avoided as a Fraudulent Transfer?

  [Alert]
  Commercial Finance Alert
  November 2011
  Mathew S. Rotenberg
  

• Blank Rome Closed 40 Reportable Transactions in 2011 Q1 and Q2

  [Alert]
  Corporate & Securities Deal Diary
  September 2011
  Alan L. Zeiger, Gary R. Goldenberg and Richard J. McMahon
  

• Standing in Bankruptcy Cases: Has the 3rd Circuit Expanded the Doctrine?

  [Article]
  Delaware Business Court Insider
  July 20, 2011
  David W. Carickhoff and Alan M. Root
  

• Supreme Court Holds Adviser Who Participated in Drafting Statements Did Not “Make” Them for Purposes of Rule 10b-5 Liability

  [Alert]
  Corporate Litigation Alert
  June 2011 (No. 4)
  Philippe M. Salomon
  

• Can a Usury Savings Clause Save the Lender?

  [Article]
  The Deal Magazine
  June 15, 2011
  Robert B. Stein
  

• U.S. Supreme Court Holds Loss Causation Not Required For Class Certification

  [Alert]
  Corporate Litigation Alert
  June 2011 (No. 3)
  James V. Masella III, Philippe M. Salomon, Evan H. Lechtman, Harris N. Cogan, Joseph O. Click, Catherine A. Armentano, et al.
  

• A Practitioner’s Perspective on the Proposed Article 9 Revisions

  [Article]
  Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal
  June 2011
  

• So You Thought You Had a Priority Lien: Unauthorized UCC Terminations May Extinguish Secured Lenders’ Liens

  [Article]
  The Secured Lender
  May/June 2011
  Jason I. Miller
  

• Blank Rome LLP Closed Over 70 Reportable Transactions in 2010

  [Alert]
  2010 Corporate & Securities Deal Diary
  2011
  Barry H. Genkin, Gary R. Goldenberg and Richard J. McMahon
  

• Internal Revenue Service Announces Second Amnesty Program for Foreign Bank Accounts: Deadline to Report Offshore Assets is August 31, 2011

  [Alert]
  Client Alert
  February 9, 2011
  Matthew D. Lee and Jennifer Lynn Bell
  

• Potential Impact of Dodd-Frank Act on CDO/CLO Transactions

  [Alert]
  Financial Services Alert
  August 2010 (No. 1)
  Grant E. Buerstetta
  

• Collateralized Loan Obligation Management Contracts

  [Article]
  The Hedge Fund Law Report
  April 2, 2010
  Grant E. Buerstetta
  

• Blank Rome LLP Advises and Closed 76 Reportable Transactions with Over $4.1 Billion in Transaction Value for 2009

  [Alert]
  2009 Corporate & Securities Deal Diary
  2010
  Barry H. Genkin, Richard J. McMahon and Alan L. Zeiger
  

• Contributing Author: Chapter 8 of Business Workouts Manual, 2d

  [Book]
  Business Workouts Manual, 2d
  November 17, 2009
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• Secured Lender Versus Seller of Goods in Competing Interest Under the UCC

  [Article]
  ABF Journal
  September/October 2009
  Michael C. Graziano and Marcie Seiler Landsburg
  

• Factors in the Economic Recovery Central to Loan Participations

  [Article]
  New York Law Journal
  April 2009
  

• Blank Rome LLP Advises and Closed 73 Reportable Transactions with Over $1.6 Billion in Transaction Value for 2008

  [Alert]
  2008 Corporate & Securities Deal Diary
  2008
  Lawrence F. Flick II, Richard J. McMahon, Robert J. Mittman, Michael S. Mullman, Robert B. Stein and Alan L. Zeiger
  

• Investment Advisers Subject to FERC Sanctions

  [Alert]
  Energy Update
  December 2008 (No. 16)
  Nicholas A. Giannasca
  

• Summary and Analysis of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

  [Alert]
  Financial Reform Watch
  October 7, 2008
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Multiple Locations? Negotiating Landlord Waivers and Their Importance in a Troubled Loan Scenario

  [Article]
  ABF Journal
  September 2008
  Kevin J. Baum and Heather Sonnenberg
  

• Lessee Remains Liable to Lessor Following Failed Mitigation

  [Article]
  ALM Law Journal Newsletters
  September 2008
  Mark I. Rabinowitz and Marcie Seiler Landsburg
  

• Discounted Higher Risk Loans May Offer Opportunities—But Read the Fine Print

  [Alert]
  Credit Alert
  April 2008 (No. 1)
  Andrew B. Eckstein
  

• Blank Rome LLP Advises and Closes 80 Reportable Transactions with Over $15.5 Billion in Transaction Value for 2007

  [Alert]
  2007 Corporate & Securities Deal Diary
  2007
  Lawrence F. Flick II, Richard J. McMahon, Robert J. Mittman, Michael S. Mullman, Mark I. Rabinowitz and Alan L. Zeiger
  

• Shipping, Finance, and Insolvencies: A Homeport in the United States?

  [Alert]
  Maritime Developments Advisory
  March 2008 (No. 8)
  Jeremy J.O. Harwood
  

• Federal Regulators Finalize FCRA Affiliate-Marketing Rules—Mandatory Compliance Date Looms

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  February (2008-1)
  

• More Fallout from the Mortgage Crisis: Government Now Targets Wall Street

  [Alert]
  Subprime Mortgage Update
  December 7, 2007 (No. 1)
  Joseph G. Poluka and Lewis W. Schlossberg
  

• New York Adopts the Registered Mortgage Loan Originator Registration and Restrictions on Equity Stripping

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  February 2007 (2007-3)
  

• Pennsylvania Banking Department Issues Statement of Policy and Proposed Regulations on Mortgage License Revocation, Loan Program Restrictions, and Disclosures

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  February 2007 (2007-2)
  

• Disgorgement of Executive Compensation Under Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - Did Congress Really Intend Strict Liability?

  [Article]
  Volume 13, Journal of Law and Business (2006)
  February 2006
  

• As 2007 Begins, an Important Question to Review:
  Will Your Customers’ Information Be Properly Protected in 2007?

  [Alert]
  Privacy and Data Security Alert
  January 2007 (No. 1)
  

• Are Loan Originators Outside Salespeople? An Important and Costly Distinction under the Fair Labor Standards Act

  [Article]
  The Mortgage Press, Inc.
  November 2006
  

• Letters of Credit: Credit Enhancement Tool

  [Article]
  Journal of Business Credit
  September/October 2006
  

• Update on the California Fax Ban Law

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Fall 2006 (2006-9)
  

• Patents in the Financial Services Industry: Partake of the Fruits but Help Change the Rules

  [Article]
  Wall Street Lawyer (Vol. 10 No. 9)
  September 2006
  

• Are Loan Originators Outside Salespeople? An Important and Costly Distinction Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Summer 2006 (No. 8)
  

• Beware of “Kickbacks”: HUD’s Recent RESPA Enforcement Actions

  [Article]
  Banking Law Journal
  July 20, 2006
  

• Parties to Second Lien Financing—Will Their Expectations Be Met in a Workout?

  [Article]
  ABF Journal
  June 2006
  

• Workout Expectations of Parties to Second Lien Financing Deals

  [Article]
  New York Law Journal
  May 2006
  

• The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission - Meet Your New Regulator

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (2006-6)
  

• Right to Rescind Survives Refinance

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (2006-5)
  

• Title Insurance Reissue Rates Must Be Disclosed

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (2006-4)
  

• The 2005 Bankruptcy Amendments: Changes to Open- and Closed-End Disclosure Rules under the Truth-in-Lending Act

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (No. 4)
  

• Positive News for National Banks and Their Operating Subsidiaries

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (No. 4)
  

• 2006 HOEPA Annual Adjustment

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (No. 4)
  

• Federal Agencies Caution Lenders Regarding Non-traditional Mortgage Products

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (No. 3)
  

• Courts Continue to Wrestle with Arbitration Provisions in Consumer Contracts

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (No. 3)
  

• Fighting Mortgage Fraud

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2006 (No. 3)
  

• Pennsylvania and New Jersey Adopt Identity Theft Prevention Laws

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2006 (No. 2)
  

• California’s Junk Fax Law

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2006 (No. 2)
  

• Safeguarding Customer Information: Federal Agencies’ Guide to Complying with the Safeguards Rule

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2006 (No.1)
  

• The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: An Overview of Changes Impacting Secured Lenders

  [Alert]
  Financial Services Alert
  October 2005 (No. 1)
  Harvey I. Forman, Regina Stango Kelbon and Mathew S. Rotenberg
  

• Concerned about the Release of HMDA Data? You Should Be

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending/Retail Banking Update
  Fall 2005 (No. 3)
  

• Latest RESPA Developments Title Insurance Probes; Who Will Be the Subject of an Investigation Next?

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Spring 2005 (No. 2)
  

• Creditor Obligations to Military Personnel

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2005 (2005-1)
  

• Co-Author: Be Careful What You Look For: It Could Be an Authenticated Record

  [Article]
  LJN’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter, Volume 23, Number 7
  August 2004
  Mark I. Rabinowitz and Heather Sonnenberg
  

• Amendments to the New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Banking Retail Update
  Summer 2004 (No. 3)
  

• Latest Developments in the New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act

  [Article]
  Mortgage Banking
  May 2004
  

• Prey Tell . . . Predatory Lending Update

  [Article]
  The Risk Management Association Journal
  April 2002
  

• Terrorism Regulations

  [Article]
  Secondary Market Investor
  April 2004
  

• Congress Enacts Major Changes to Fair Credit Reporting Act with Passage of the “FACT” Act of 2003

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2004 (No. 2)
  

• Pennsylvania’s New Mortgage Satisfaction Law Protects Mortgagees

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending / Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2004 (2004-1)
  

• Contributing Author: Update Chapter 23 - Regulation of Bank Leasing Activities

  [Article]
  Matthew Bender's Equipment Leasing Treatise
  December 2003
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• The New Jersey Predatory Lending Act

  [Article]
  Mortgage Banking
  November 2003
  

• Author: State Law, Litigation and Enforcement Update

  [Article]
  National Home Equity Mortgage Assn
  2003
  

• Author: Security Interests in Unregistered Copyrights Perfected Under UCC

  [Article]
  The Bankruptcy Strategist
  January 2003
  Mathew S. Rotenberg
  

• HUD’s New Proposed Rule: Lender Accountability For Appraisals

  [Alert]
  Consumer Lending/Retail Banking Update
  Winter 2003
  

• 7th Circuit Reminds Lessors to Look Closely at Collateral Descriptions in Documentation

  [Article]
  LJN's Equipment Leasing Newsletter
  November 2002
  Kevin J. Baum
  

• Co-Author: Golden Books Case Creates New ‘Golden Rule’ for Lessors

  [Article]
  LJN’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter, Volume XXI, Number 5
  March 2002
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• UCC Article 9 revisions in effect in New Jersey

  [Article]
  New Jersey Lawyer
  March 2002
  

• Co-Author: Perfection of Security Interests in Intellectual Property

  [Article]
  IP Issues in the Bankruptcy Environment: Navigating Unfamiliar Waters, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference
  November 2001
  

• Co-Author: Security Interests in Investment Property

  [Article]
  Commercial Finance Guide
  2001
  Mathew S. Rotenberg
  

• Co-Author: The Case of the Continuing Guaranty

  [Article]
  Leader's Equipment Leasing Newsletter
  October 2000
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• To E-sign or Not to E-Sign: That Is the Question

  [Article]
  RESPRO
  August/September 2000
  

• Co-Author: Security Interests in Intellectual Property Assets - Patent, Trademark & Copyright

  [Article]
  Drafting Commercial Loan Documents, PBI No. 2000-2541
  2000
  Mathew S. Rotenberg
  

• Co-Author: Secret Liens and Traps for the Unwary Lender

  [Article]
  Drafting Commercial Loan Documents, PBI No. 2000-2541
  2000
  

• Comment: Growing Environmental Concerns: Is Population Control the Answer?

  [Article]
  11 VILL. ENVTL. L.J. 111
  2000
  

• e.trouble: On-Line Mortgage Originations - Keeping the Regulators at Bay

  [Article]
  Mortgage Press
  January 2000
  

• Strive for Perfection: Use Debtor’s Correct Legal Name

  [Article]
  Leader’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter
  April 1999
  Kevin J. Baum
  

• The RESPA Consequences of (Some) Office Rental Fee Arrangements

  [Article]
  RESPRO
  April 1999
  

• New Pennsylvania Mortgage Banker/Broker Licensing Legislation

  [Article]
  Penna. Bar Assn. Quarterly
  April 1999
  

• Married to a Form of Personal Guaranty? You Shouldn't Be

  [Article]
  Leader's Newsletter
  February 1999
  Kevin J. Baum
  

• New Article 9: A Commercial Lawyer's Synopsis

  [Article]
  The Banking Law Journal
  January 1999
  

• UCC Survey: Leases

  [Article]
  53 The Business Lawyer 1498
  August 1998
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Compliance On-Line: Electronic Disclosures

  [Article]
  Corp., Banking and Business Law Newsletter
  Summer 1998
  

• Leasing Law: Georgia Upholding the Integrity of Hell or Highwater

  [Article]
  Equipment Leasing Today
  May 1998
  Kevin J. Baum and Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• Mortgage Banking/Consumer Credit International Market Development

  [Article]
  Equity
  April 1998
  

• Email in the Workplace and the Right of Privacy

  [Article]
  42 Villanova Law Review 1011
  1997
  Kevin J. Baum
  

• UCC Survey: Leases

  [Article]
  47 The Business Lawyer 1517
  1997
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Broker Fee Litigation (and Litigation Avoidance) Update/Lobbying Primer

  [Article]
  Equity
  March 1997
  

• Creditors: Beware When Searching Lien Filings On Line

  [Article]
  Leader's Equipment Leasing Newsletter, Volume XV, Number 9
  September 1996
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• New from HUD: Three New RESPA Policy Changes

  [Article]
  ABA Banking Journal
  August 1996
  

• The Question of Overages Unsettles Lending Industry

  [Article]
  Origination News
  April 1996
  

• Co-Author: Purchase Money Priority, When is Title Acquired

  [Book]
  The Bankruptcy Strategist
  February 1996
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• Why Due Diligence Is Important, Even in Nonrecourse Transactions

  [Article]
  Leader's Equipment Leasing Newsletter, Volume XII, Number 2
  February 1993
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  

• Reclaiming Possession of Leased or Sold Goods

  [Article]
  Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal
  January 1993
  

• Co-Author: Portfolio Acquisitions…Looking Through the Legal Lens

  [Article]
  Monitor, Portfolio Supplement
  September/October 1992
  Mark I. Rabinowitz and Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Co-Author: Secured Lender Perfects Security Interests with Notice to Lessees

  [Article]
  Computer Leasing Today, Volume 3, Number 3
  January 1992
  Mark I. Rabinowitz
  
  

• UCC Survey: Leases

  [Article]
  46 The Business Lawyer 1509
  August 1991
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• What Can a Mortgagee Do After the Bankruptcy Petition Is Filed?

  [Article]
  The Practical Real Estate Lawyer
  September 1990
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• UCC Survey: Leases

  [Article]
  45 The Business Lawyer 2332
  August 1990
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Article 2A - Leases

  [Article]
  44 The Business Lawyer 1501
  August 1989
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Co-Author: The Elusive Article 9 First - Lien Security Interest: How Your Lien Position Can Be Eroded and How to Prevent It

  [Article]
  20 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, 211
  Winter 1988
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Lender Liability: Failure to Lend and Improper Acceleration

  [Article]
  Loan Officer Legal Alert, Vol. 3, Nos. 2-6
  1987
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Equipment Lease or Security Agreement: Determining the Parties

  [Article]
  The Banking Law Journal
  January 1987
  

• Liability in Connection with Establishing Credit Facility

  [Article]
  Lender Liability: Non-Credit Risks of Bank Lending
  October, 1986
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Co-Author: Liability of Banks to Their Borrowers: Pitfalls and Protections

  [Article]
  Banking Law Journal
  1986
  Lawrence F. Flick II
  

• Contributing Author: Practicing Under the Bankruptcy Reform Act

  [Article]
  CRR Publishing Company
  1979
  Harvey I. Forman