Wayne Streibich

CHAIR, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LITIGATION AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE (“FILARC”) GROUP

As chair of Blank Rome’s Financial Institutions Litigation and Regulatory Compliance (“FILARC”) group and a nationally recognized leader in the consumer financial services industry, Wayne Streibich represents consumer mortgage lenders and servicers with respect to federal and state regulatory issues, and in consumer mortgage loan litigation. He has more than two decades of experience counseling clients in consumer finance law and related regulatory proceedings and litigation in the industry.

Wayne’s practice is focused on successfully resolving high-profile matters for his consumer mortgage services industry clients across the universe of federal and state regulatory and compliance issues, including RESPA, FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, TILA, and SCRA. In cases where litigation ensues, he has an enviable record of success in both single borrower and multiple borrower actions. Wayne regularly defends clients in significant class action litigations involving both nationwide and state-specific classes.

Additionally, Wayne has extensive experience representing middle market and emerging growth companies in a broad array of matters, which include planning and formation; preparation of shareholder, operating, employment, and non-competition agreements; as well as in purchase, sale, and merger transactions.

• Counsel for mortgage lenders and servicers regarding Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”) and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) issues.
• Lead counsel in federal and state consumer finance litigation in multiple jurisdictions, including class actions.
• Act as outside general counsel, from formation, for one of largest U.S. body armor manufacturers.
• Act as outside general counsel for one of largest U.S. slot base manufacturers.
• Represented pre-revenue company in sale of proprietary software product to public company.
• Represented seller of one of largest New Jersey independent health insurance brokers to nationwide broker.

• Whitepaper

  Making the Old New Again: The Resurgence of Attorney Opinion Letters as an Alternative to Title Insurance

  MBA November 2023

  Jonathan K. Moore, Wayne Streibich, Louise Bowes Marencik

• Speaking Engagement

  Mortgage Bankers Association Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference 2023

  May 8, 2023

  Wayne Streibich, R. Andrew Arculin, Diana M. Eng

• Article

  Farewell, Hunstein—Eleventh Circuit Holds Disclosing Debtor’s Information to Mail Vendor Does Not Establish Concrete Harm

  Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law January 2023

  Wayne Streibich, Diana M. Eng

• Alert

  Farewell, Hunstein—Eleventh Circuit Holds Disclosing Debtor’s Information to Mail Vendor Does Not Establish Concrete Harm

  Financial Institutions Litigation and Regulatory Compliance ("FILARC") September 14, 2022 (No. 5)

  Wayne Streibich, Diana M. Eng

• Alert

  Fifth Circuit Holds Mere Statutory Violation of the FDCPA, Future Risk of Harm, Confusion, and Lost Time Are Insufficient to Establish Article III Standing

  Financial Institutions Litigation and Regulatory Compliance ("FILARC") August 18, 2022 (No. 4)

  Wayne Streibich, Diana M. Eng

• Alert

  California’s Highest Court Confirms Lenders Owe No Duty to Borrowers to Process, Review, and Respond to Loan Modification Applications and Nixes Negligence Claim

  Financial Institutions Litigation and Regulatory Compliance ("FILARC") March 9, 2022 (No. 2)

  Wayne Streibich, Diana M. Eng, Cheryl S. Chang, Jessica A. McElroy

• Alert

  FDIC and FinCEN Announce Digital Identity Proofing Tech Sprint

  Financial Institutions Litigation and Regulatory Compliance ("FILARC") January 24, 2022 (No. 1)

  Scott D. Samlin, R. Andrew Arculin, Michael J. Barry, Jonathan K. Moore, Wayne Streibich

• Alert

  New York Further Extends the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention and Small Businesses Acts to January 15, 2022, but Provides a Way to Challenge Hardship Declarations

  Consumer Finance Litigation September 9, 2021 (No. 11)

  Wayne Streibich, Diana M. Eng

• Alert

  U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Enforcement of a Limited Part of New York’s COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act

  Consumer Finance Litigation August 17, 2021 (No. 10)

  Wayne Streibich, Diana M. Eng

• Article

  The Hunstein Effect: Examining the Eleventh Circuit’s Ruling and What’s Next for Debt Collectors and Their Third-Party Service Providers the Reach of Its Creditors

  Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law July/August 2021

  Wayne Streibich

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Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Board of Directors for The Sophie Jane Darr Foundation
• Mortgage Bankers Association of America
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association

Wayne is an elected member of the Board of Directors of The Sophie Jane Darr Foundation and a former Board member of The Glenholme School.

Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Education

• Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick, BS, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
• Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, JD