Mortgage Expert Witnesses in Massachusetts

This mortgage expert has 30+ years of lending experience, including management positions in residential and consumer lending, secondary marketing, loan servicing, compliance, and operations. He is an accomplished third-party underwriter and quality control reviewer of mortgage loans and operations for several classifications of mortgage lenders. He has been a national-level instructor for over 20 years and has taught hundreds of lenders, as well as taught examiners and regulators on the state and federal level for banks, credit unions, and mortgage bankers/brokers. He worked with the NMLS in designing the SAFE Act federal MLO exam and in reviewing and auditing SAFE Act licensing education programs. The expert is a past Director of the Community Lending Institute Education Department for the American Bankers Association and is also the past Board Director, Strategic Planning Committee Chair, and Education Committee Co-Chair for the Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association. In addition, he is the author of an industry standard residential mortgage textbook that is used in several hundred U.S. colleges and universities. The expert current runs two small consulting practices that specialize in mortgage and consumer lending/compliance.

This asset lending, commercial contracts, and finance attorney currently works for a leading global law firm in New York. He earned his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1982 and has been a financial attorney in New York for the past 30+ years. The expert spent over 22 years with Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, where he served as a Partner. He was also the Managing Partner of the New York office at SNR Denton for 2+ years. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was a member of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Housing and Urban Development. He currently represents financial institutions, funds, and similar entities in purchases and loan portfolio structuring and structured and conventional financing and warehousing, and in a wide variety of mortgage market transactions, and he has (entirely successfully) acted as an expert witness in a malpractice action against a major national law firm.

This expert specializes in structured finance, derivatives, securities and finance matters. His experience includes cash, synthetic and hybrid collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), asset-backed securities (ABS) of various types, structured investment vehicles (SIVs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), credit default swaps (CDS), interest rate swaps, credit-linked notes (CLNs), repurchase ("repo") agreements and securities fraud. As a transactional attorney he has been an Associate, Special Counsel or Partner at several of the leading transactional law firms in the United States, including Shearman & Sterling; Mayer, Brown & Platt; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. As an expert witness and/or consultant, he has worked with many of the leading litigation firms, and leading litigation departments of full-service firms, in the country, including Berger Montague; Chapman and Cutler; Kirby McInerney; Labaton Sucharow; Patterson Belknap; Robbins Geller; Scott + Scott; and Williams & Connolly.

This qualified expert has nearly 25 years of experience in information technology. He received his BA in urban studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He then earned his MBA, specializing in decision sciences and finance, from the Wharton School of Business. He began his career as a project manager for the global consumer finance branch of GE Capital. While working in this branch, he was also the chief information officer of GE Capital Bank Austria and GE Capital Service Bank in Germany. He then rose to become the vice president of IT strategic initiatives in the global consumer finance branch. He also held the position of vice president of IT development and support for the vendor financial services branch before becoming the chief information officer of the commercial real estate branch. Additionally, this expert has served as the chief information officer for Workforce Opportunity Services and AJC Global. Currently, he serves as a consultant for an information technology and business consultancy based in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the area of domestic and offshore personal trusts. He received his BS in business administration from Northeastern University before earning his MS in management concentration from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT. This expert worked with Citigroup for nearly 30 years, serving in a variety of roles including lending officer, vice president of the institutional recovery management department, senior risk manager, chief fiduciary officer, and chief trust officer. At Citigroup, he had full fiduciary responsibility for Citigroup Trust, the successor organization to one of the country's oldest trust businesses, and he oversaw several thousand trusts. He worked with portfolio managers to monitor fixed income, equity, and alternative investment portfolios. He also headed the trust advisory committee, which approved all new businesses and all discretionary distributions. Currently, this expert is a personal trusts consultant.