Robert A. Jaffe, of Counsel, Kutak Rock LLP to Speak at the Knowledge What You Need to Know Before Entering Into Your Next ABS Deal Live Webcast

New York, NY, September 19, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Robert A. Jaffe, Of Counsel, Kutak Rock LLP will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “What You Need to Know before Entering into Your Next ABS Deal.” This event is scheduled for October 9, 2014 from 10:00am – 12:00pm (ET).

For further details, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/event_name/what-you-need-to-know-before-entering-into-your-next-abs-deal-live-webcast/

About Robert A. Jaffe

Robert A. Jaffe (D.C.), of counsel in Kutak Rock’s Washington D.C. office, concentrates his practice in complex civil and commercial litigation, including antitrust, banking, business torts, contract disputes, insurance coverage, and securities. He has extensive experience in administrative proceedings and defense of government and agency investigations, as well as over 30 years of experience with leading firms in New York and Washington, D.C., representing commercial banks, financial institutions, high-tech companies, health care providers, and other businesses, officers and investors. His financial institution cases include, mortgage fraud, credit card portfolio, commercial lending, insurance, real estate lending and foreclosure, as well as numerous securitization cases for trustees, investors and insurers. Mr. Jaffe has been the lead counsel in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts, and on appeals in the D.C., Federal and First, Second and Forth Circuits. He has worked as part of defense counsel teams on multi-party antitrust and other class action cases. Mr. Jaffe recently headed a multi-lawyer team over five years in a major RMBS litigation, resulting in a significant, favorable settlement. Mr. Jaffe received his J.D. with high honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studied international law at the University of Vienna, and received his undergraduate degree from N.Y.U. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and other federal courts.

About Kutak Rock LLP

Kutak Rock LLP is a national law firm of more than 450 lawyers with offices from coast to coast. Our firm serves local, regional and national clients in a practice that spans a wide range of disciplines. We encourage our attorneys to take advantage of the national resources and broad range of expertise the firm offers in order to provide the best legal services possible to our clients.

Our firm's primary practice concentrations are business and corporate law, public finance, litigation and real estate law, with numerous areas of specialization. Kutak Rock attorneys work together in well-integrated, national practice groups to maintain and enhance their technical expertise and to reinforce and support one another in achieving client objectives.

We have represented hundreds of state and local governmental units, a substantial number of Fortune 500 corporations, every major investment banking firm in the United States, major European, Asian and domestic money-center banks, insurance companies, national real estate investors and developers, major national franchising enterprises and numerous other financial institutions and businesses.

We have earned a national reputation for finding creative solutions to complex legal issues and for providing excellent legal services in a practical, cost-conscious manner. We maintain that reputation by actively communicating with our clients at the initial stages of each engagement to gain a complete and clear understanding of our clients' desired objectives.

Event Synopsis:

In this two-hour live webcast, speaker will address the following significant topics

• Overview of the Securitization Deal Terms that Failed During the Last Crisis
• Understanding Substantive vs. Procedural Risk: Who Bears the Risk of Enforcing Various Rights?
• Economic Impact of New Risk Retention Rules under the Dodd Frank Act on Securitization
• Proposed Securitization Valuation Methodology

About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

The Knowledge Group, LLC was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register to an event, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/