Biography
Norman Roos, a member of the firm's Business Transactions Group, concentrates his practice on transactional, regulatory, and technology matters relating to the financial services and real estate industries.
Financial Transactions
Norm represents banks, insurance companies, diversified financial service companies, and other publicly and privately held entities on a broad range of matters involving consumer and commercial credit transactions with a special focus on mortgage banking. He handles corporate and contract matters, and his experience includes bank acquisitions, all varieties of traditional bank lending, student lending transactions, timeshare finance, and commercial real estate financing. He also serves as an outside general counsel for financial institutions and a state trade association.
Norm has extensive experience with large-scale and complex financial transactions. He assisted a major lender with the establishment of a nationwide manufactured home construction loan program. He has also represented banks and mortgage companies in the acquisition and disposition of performing and nonperforming loan portfolios. In addition, Norm assists clients, including card issuers, payment processors, and merchants, on payment processing matters and contracts.
Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement
Norm counsels banks and other financial institutions on compliance with a wide variety of regulations promulgated by federal and state banking regulators. He has worked with a number of leading national mortgage lenders as outside regulatory counsel. Norm has counseled financial service providers on a wide variety of legal and regulatory matters involving, among other laws, the Truth-in-Lending Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and state licensing laws. He also provides guidance on capital requirements, payment processing, anti-money laundering, and virtual currency matters.
Norm also advises clients facing enforcement actions by regulatory agencies. He has obtained positive outcomes for clients in enforcement actions, including preserving his clients’ licenses in a number of significant administrative proceedings.
Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and FinTech
Norm advises financial institutions concerning data privacy and security matters, particularly in relation to policy planning and implementation. He provides legal advice related to new financial products and delivery methods, including online and mobile banking services. He also counsels financial services clients on the development and implications of data breach incident response policies. He has represented national mortgage lenders in connection with privacy, data security, incident response, and information management policies and procedures. He is a member of the firm's Financial Services Cyber-Compliance Team, and he regularly contributes to the firm’s blog, Data Privacy + Security Insider.
Norm is counsel to the Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association, Inc., and is a Past President of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, where he also served on the Board of Regents. A member of the Connecticut Bar Association, he is Past Chair of the Financial Institutions Law Section and the Consumer Law Section. He has served on a number of Connecticut Law Revision Study Committees including those on the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, Electronic Communications, Mortgagor Liability, and Electronic Recording of Land Records.
Norm writes frequently about financial matters. He is the author of The CMBA Handbook on Connecticut Mortgage Statutes: An Analysis and Compilation of Connecticut Legislation Affecting Residential First Mortgage Lending and the editor of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys newsletter (the ACMA Abstract). His articles have appeared in The National Law Journal, Real Estate Finance Journal, The Banking Law Journal, Mortgage Technology, and National Mortgage News, among other publications. Normalso is a frequent lecturer at bar and trade association programs on mortgage lending and consumer credit.
He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© in the areas of Banking and Finance Law and Financial Services Regulation Law since 2012. He also has been listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® from 2006 to 2022.