Brian S. Levy, Of Counsel with Katten & Temple, LLP, provides compliance,
transactional and regulatory guidance for banks, mortgage originators and
related providers. Unique sales and in-house experience enables him to
provide practical and creative guidance on matters such as RESPA (MSA’s,
lead sharing, joint marketing, desk leases, AfBA’s, etc.), mortgage
repurchase defense, loan sales, loan officer compensation and other
regulatory requirements and enforcement issues for originators.
Mr. Levy has also developed a niche representing purchasers and sellers
of overnight summer camps.
Mr. Levy is a frequent mortgage banking and related industry trade group
conference speaker and is the author of the Mortgage Musings monthly blog
and website www.mortgagemusings.com. Among other articles and publications,
Mortgage Banking Magazine featured his article, CFPB’s Enforcement-First
Approach, and Buybacks - They’re Not Going Away in September 2013 and
Mortgage Banking’s April 2016 edition contained Mr. Levy’s article
criticizing the CFPB’s enforcement-based method of providing
compliance guidance.
Mr. Levy was General Counsel to a mid-sized midwestern bank for 15 years
and prior to that worked for 5 years in private practice handling primarily
commercial real estate law with what is now the international law
firm DLA. He graduated from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, (A.B., 1986, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and
Harvard Law School (J.D., 1989). He can be found on Linked-In at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianslevy/ and followed on Twitter @BrianSLevy.