E. Robert
Levy, Esq.
E. Robert Levy is Executive Director of, and Counsel to the Mortgage Bankers Association of New Jersey, The Mortgage Bankers Association of Pennsylvania, and The New Jersey Association of Mortgage Brokers. He is a partner in the law firm of Levy & Watkinson PC, with offices in Woodbridge and Trenton, NJ. information.
Mr. Levy was Deputy Commissioner for the State of New Jersey, Department of Banking and was a State Deputy Attorney General, in which capacity he served as counsel to the Department of Banking and Insurance. Mr. Levy currently serves on the New Jersey Licensed Lenders Advisory Board, which advises the Department of Banking and Insurance on legislative and regulatory matters. Mr. Levy is also the Chairman of The Advisory Council to the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR). Mr. Levy was also a member of AARMR’s Task Force, which drafted AARMR’s Model Mortgage Bankers and Brokers License Act Compendium to be used as a guide by various states.
Mr. Levy was a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the
Mortgage Bankers Association of America and was Chairman of the
Association’s State and Local Advisory Council for two one-year
terms as well as a member of MBA’s Board of Directors. In 2005, Mr.
Levy was appointed to the National Association’s Residential Board
of Governors and was made Chairman of the National State
Legislative/Regulatory Committee.
Mr. Levy was
instrumental in the drafting and passage of the Mortgage Bankers and
Brokers License Laws in both New Jersey (now the Licensed Lenders
Act) and Pennsylvania, and assisted in drafting many of the mortgage
banking regulations in New Jersey. He was also one of the drafters
of the Consumer Equity Protection Act in Pennsylvania. He was
involved in negotiating the New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act (NJHOSA)
and in obtaining crucial amendments to that law benefiting New
Jersey consumers.
Mr. Levy was a member of the Pennsylvania Banking Department’s Statewide Foreclosure Study Committee that met with then Secretary of Banking William Schenck and other representatives of the Department of Banking to study the potential impact of abusive lending practices on foreclosures and to recommend regulation and legislation deemed appropriate.
Contact
Mr. Levy:
erlevy@apmol.com
