Clinton R. Rockwell
Associate

Buckley Kolar LLP
1801 Century Park East, Suite 2240
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(424) 203-1002
(424) 203-1019 (fax)

Practice

Clint Rockwell is a senior associate at Buckley Kolar LLP’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Rockwell advises financial services clients, including federal savings banks, national banks, member banks of the Federal Reserve System, bank holding companies, national mortgage companies, commercial lenders, credit card issuers, and securities broker-dealers, regarding a variety of regulatory, compliance and transactional matters.

Professional Experience

Mr. Rockwell has been involved with matters involving:

• Federal preemption of state consumer and commercial credit laws;

• Federal and state laws regarding proposed financial products and services, including the impact of Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act (AMTPA) preemption, interest exportation, National Bank Act, and Home Owners’ Loan Act (HOLA) preemption on proposed financial products and operations;

• State high-cost home loan laws;

• Licensing and regulatory compliance in connection with state mortgage banker, broker, consumer and commercial loan laws;

• Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA) Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), and other federal law compliance for national mortgage lenders;

• Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) compliance, including affiliated business arrangements and joint ventures;

• Consumer and commercial compliance audits;

• Regulatory analyses regarding residential mortgage lending, commercial lending, real estate brokerage, loan sale/purchase, and electronic funds transfers;

• Rate exportation/most favored lender issues;

• Formation of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Veterans Administration (VA) lending platforms and FHA compliance; and

• Federal and state enforcement examinations.

Bar and Court Admissions

Mr. Rockwell is a member of the State of California and the District of Columbia Bars.

Professional Activities

Mr. Rockwell is a member of the American Bar Association Consumer Financial Services Committee, the University of London Post Graduate Law Society and the Bentham Society at University College, London.

Education

LL.M. Cross-Border Banking and Finance, University College London & The London School of Economics, 2003 (with merit)
J.D. The George Washington University Law School, 2002 (with honors)
B.A. University of California at San Diego, 1999 (cum laude)
Studied political science, philosophy and economics (PPE) at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, England, 1998 - 1999