PUTBACK ACTION STEMMING FROM THE PURCHASE OF RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES SURVIVED MOTIONS TO DISMISS.
The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Renwick, determined the action alleging breach of warranties and representations in connection with the purchase of residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) properly survived motions to dismiss. The opinion is fact-specific and turns on the terms of the contracts. The issues, all of which survived the dismissal motions, were summarized by the court as follows:
This appeal stems from a transaction involving residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS). Plaintiff, the administrator of the securitized trust, seeks to enforce the loan repurchase rights, more commonly referred to as putback rights, against defendant sponsor of the securitized transaction for breach of the representations and warranties defendant made regarding the quality of the mortgage loans. This action raises a number of issues that regularly recur in putback actions, including whether the action was timely commenced, whether or not the action is unripe for failing to comply with a condition precedent to commencement of the action, and whether plaintiff adequately pleaded a cause of action for breach of the representations and warranties. This action also raises an issue of first impression of whether enforcement of putback rights is within the exclusive domain of a RMBS’s trustee so as to deny plaintiff Securities Administrator standing to commence this action. Natixis Real Estate Capital Trust 2007-HE2 v Natixis Real Estate Holdings, LLC, 2017 NY Slip Op 01796, 1st Dept 3-9-17
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