§ 340.4. What are the restrictions on the sale of assets by the FDIC regardless of the method of financing?
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/us/cfr/t12/s§ 340.4·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
(a)A person may not acquire any assets of a failed institution from the FDIC if the person or its associated person:
(1)Has participated, as an officer or director of a failed institution or of an affiliate of a failed institution, in a material way in one or more transaction(s) that caused a substantial loss to that failed institution;
(2)Has been removed from, or prohibited from participating in the affairs of, a failed institution pursuant to any final enforcement action by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the FDIC, or any of their predecessors or successors;
(3)Has demonstrated a pattern or practice of defalcation regarding obligations to any failed institution;
(4)Has been convicted of committing or conspiring to commit any offense under 18 U.S.C. 215, 656, 657, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1014, 1032, 1341, 1343 or 1344 affecting any failed institution and there has been a default with respect to one or more obligations owed by that person or its associated person; or
(5)Would be prohibited from purchasing the assets of a covered financial company from the FDIC under 12 U.S.C. 5390(r) or its implementing regulation at 12 CFR part 380.13.
(b)For purposes of paragraph
(a)of this section, a person has participated “in a material way in a transaction that caused a substantial loss to a failed institution” if, in connection with a substantial loss to a failed institution, the person has been found in a final determination by a court or administrative tribunal, or is alleged in a judicial or administrative action brought by the FDIC or by any component of the government of the United States or of any state:
(1)To have violated any law, regulation, or order issued by a federal or state banking agency, or breached or defaulted on a written agreement with a federal or state banking agency, or breached a written agreement with a failed institution;
(2)To have engaged in an unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the affairs of a failed institution; or
(3)To have breached a fiduciary duty owed to a failed institution.
(c)For purposes of paragraph
(a)of this section, a person or its associated person has demonstrated a “pattern or practice of defalcation” regarding obligations to a failed institution if the person or associated person has:
(1)Engaged in more than one transaction that created an obligation on the part of such person or its associated person with intent to cause a loss to any insured depository institution or with reckless disregard for whether such transactions would cause a loss to any such insured depository institution; and
(2)The transactions, in the aggregate, caused a substantial loss to one or more failed institution(s).
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What are the restrictions on the sale of assets by the FDIC regardless of the method of financing?
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