Contrywide Financial

Posted on February 04, 2012 by Admin
Contrywide Financial

Contrywide Financial

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Pfaelzer in October had granted Bank of America’s request to be dismissed from the case and gave Allstate permission to amend its claims to address the deficiencies she identified. Allstate argued in its revised complaint that Bank of America structured the Countrywide acquisition so as to strip the unit of all its valuable assets and leave a “raided” shell for creditors to sue.

“This is significant for settlement negotiations,” James Kwak, a law professor at the University of Connecticut, said in a phone interview before the ruling was filed. “It gives Bank of America a card to play in negotiations.”

Countrywide Brand

Bank of America merged Countrywide with a subsidiary and subsequently transferred most of the mortgage lender’s assets from that unit, Countrywide Financial, to other Bank of America operations and retired the Countrywide brand. Allstate claimed that the asset transfers should be treated as a so-called de facto merger under Delaware law.

Pfaelzer previously said that under Delaware law an asset transfer can’t be treated as a de facto merger, which would make Bank of America liable as the successor of Countrywide, unless there was fraud involved. Allstate argued that the consideration Bank of America paid the Countrywide subsidiary for the assets was insufficient and was evidence of fraud.

Maryellen Thielen, a spokeswoman for Northbrook, Illinois- based Allstate, didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the decision after regular business hours.

The case is Allstate v. Countrywide, 11-05236, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles).

–Editors: Peter Blumberg, Michael Hytha

To contact the reporter on this story: Edvard Pettersson in Los Angeles at epettersson@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net