On October 5, 2011, Loreley Financing (“Loreley”), a group of special purpose entities based in the Channel Islands, commenced two actions in New York State Supreme Court concerning the sale of CDO’s. In the first action, Loreley filed a complaint against Deutsche Bank in connection with a $440 million investment in six CDOs between 2005 and 2007. Loreley accuses Deutsche Bank of concealing inside knowledge, gathered through its work originating subprime loans and securitizing RMBS, that the loans underlying the CDOs were highly risky and very likely to default. Loreley alleges that Deutsche Bank marketed the CDOs to Loreley while offloading the riskiest RMBS off its own books into the CDOs and contemporaneously advising favored clients to place short bets against the same assets. The complaint alleges common-law claims for fraud, rescission, conspiracy to defraud, aiding and abetting fraud, fraudulent conveyance, and unjust enrichment. Complaint.

The second action, in which Loreley has to date filed only a summons with notice, involves preliminary allegations against Bank of America, Countrywide and Merrill Lynch based on a $92 million investment in two CDOs. Without making any factual allegations, Loreley asserts common-law claims for rescission, fraud, fraudulent inducement, conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent conveyance, aiding and abetting fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment. Summons.