{"id":5344,"date":"2012-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.blawgcloud.com\/2012\/09\/class_action_mbs_securities_la"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:40:36","slug":"class-action-mbs-securities-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/class-action-mbs-securities-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Action MBS Securities Lawsuit Against Goldman Sachs is Reinstated by 2nd Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reinstated a would-be class action securities lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs (GS) (in the role of underwriter) and related entities of misstating the risks involving mortgage-backed securities certificates. The revival is based on 7 of 17 challenged offerings, causing the appeals court to conclude that the plaintiff can sue on behalf of investors in mortgaged-back certificates whose lenders originated the mortgages backing the certificates that were bought. The 2nd Circuit said that those investors\u2019 claims and the pension fund\u2019s claims implicate the same concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Per the court, NECA-IBEW Health &amp; Welfare Fund is alleging violations of the Securities Act of 1933\u2019s Sections 15, 12(a)(2), and 11 involving a would-be class of investors who bought certain certificates that were backed by mortgages that Goldman had underwritten and one of its affiliates had issued. The certificates were sold in 17 offerings pursuant to the same shelf registration statement but with 17 separate prospectus supplements that came with specific details about each offering.<\/p>\n<p>In its class action securities lawsuit, the plaintiff alleged that the shelf registration statement had material misrepresentations about both the risks involving the instruments and underwriting standards that are supposed to determine the ability of a borrower to repay. A district court dismissed the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Circuit acknowledged that NECA suffered personal injury from the defendants\u2019 use of allegedly misleading statements in the offering documents linked to the certificates that it bought. However, whether the defendants\u2019 behavior implicates the same concerns as their decision to include similar statements in the Offering Documents associated with other certificates is more difficult to answer.<\/p>\n<p>While the plaintiff\u2019s claims are partially based on general allegations of a deterioration in loan origination practices that is industry wide, the most specific claims link the allegedly abusive conduct to the 17 trusts\u2019 6 main originators. However, Wells Fargo Bank (WFC) and GreenPoint Mortgage Funding Inc., the only two entities that are the originators of the loans behind the certificates that the fund bought, are not defendants in this securities lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>That the alleged misrepresentations showed up in separate Offering Documents doesn\u2019t alone bring up fundamentally different concerns because their location doesn\u2019t impact a given buyer\u2019s \u201cassertion that the representation was misleading,\u201d said the court. Because of this, and other reasons, the plaintiff has class standing to assert the claims of the buyers of the Certificates from the 5 other Trusts that have loans that were originated by Wells Fargo, Greenpoint, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The second circuit said that the fund didn\u2019t need to \u201cto plead an out-of-pocket loss\u201d to allege a cognizable diminution in the value of a security that was not liquid under that statute. Finding the \u201crequisite inferences\u201d in favor of the plaintiff, the appeals court said that not only was it \u201cplausible,\u201d but also it was obvious that mortgage-backed securities, such as the Certificates, would experience a drop in value because of ratings downgrades and uncertain cash flows. The fund \u201cplausibly alleged\u201d a distinction between how much it paid for the certificates, their value, and when the class action MBS lawsuit was filed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca2\/11-2762\/11-2762-2012-09-06.pdf\"><br \/>\nNECA-IBEW Health &amp; Welfare Fund v. Goldman Sachs &amp; Co.<\/a>, Justia (PDF)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/class-action-mbs-securities-la\/#more-5344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reinstated a would-be class action securities lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs (GS) (in the role of underwriter) and related entities of misstating the risks involving mortgage-backed securities certificates. 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