Regulatory Reset: New Risks and Shifting Enforcement in 2025
In this episode of the Financial Services Focus Podcast, we’ll examine changes in federal enforcement actions, financial penalties, and what these signal for the future under the Trump Administration. Additionally, we discuss the emergence of new risks—such as the expanded use of the False Claims Act in areas like DEI lawsuits, tariff evasion, and healthcare fraud.
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Current Mortgage & PropTech M&A Trends
In this episode, our host Lauren Pryor is joined by Chris Gough and Michael Linger from Houlihan Lokey to discuss recent trends in Mortgage M&A, including consolidation among originators and servicers and developments in PropTech.
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FinCEN’s First Strike: New Section 311 Powers Target Mexican Financial Institutions Under FEND Off Fentanyl Act
In this episode, host Lauren Pryor and her colleagues discuss the recent actions by FinCEN, which designated three Mexican financial institutions as primary money laundering concerns under the expanded Section 311 authority, strengthened by the Fend Off Fentanyl Act. This designation aims to disrupt fentanyl-related financial crime by prohibiting U.S. financial institutions from processing transactions involving these entities. The discussion highlights the broader U.S. government effort to combat cartels, drawing parallels to post-9/11 actions against terrorist financing.Â
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Sandbagging in Delaware M&A: Court Rulings and Deal Implications
In this episode of Financial Services Focus, Lauren Pryor and her colleagues discuss a recent Delaware Chancery Court opinion that reinforces Delaware's pro-sandbagging stance in M&A transactions. This conversation covers the implications of this ruling, particularly regarding the interpretation of representations and warranties, the use of transaction multiples for calculating damages, and key takeaways for buyers and sellers in Delaware M&A transactions.
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M&A Mortgage Tech
Join us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus, with partner Lauren Pryor, co-lead of the Financial Services Product Team, and Brad Peterson, a partner at the firm’s Chicago office and member of the Technology & IP Transactions practice. They are joined by John Guzzo and Ted Conway, Managing Directors at KBW, to dive into the evolving world of mortgage servicing technology trends. Together, they discuss the latest trends in mortgage servicing M&A, the mortgage tech landscape, outsourcing trends, opportunities for consolidation among technology vendors, and the challenges and opportunities that come with technology adoption in this space. Additionally, Lauren and Brad explore the impact of generative AI on mortgage servicing contracts.
Mayer Brown's Financial Services Focus podcast offers insight from our lawyers on the pivotal trends currently shaping the financial services industry. Topics include regulation leading up to the US election, impactful state laws, vendor risk, cybersecurity, structured finance, private credit investments, M&A activity, digital assets, fee lawsuits, AI discrimination claims, and commercial mortgage issues.
Financial Services Focus also provides a UK/European perspective, analyzing parallels and differences from US trends in areas like fintech, AI oversight and outsourcing rules. Our goal is to keep clients updated on the latest legal and market developments impacting financial services, wherever in the world you are.
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