Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which served as the placement agent for a collateralized debt obligation named Davis Square Funding VI, was sued by Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg over its $37 million loss on the investment.
The CDO held 95 percent residential mortgage-backed securities, of which 33 percent were subprime and 46 percent were "midprime," the German bank said in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan. TCW Group Inc., the investment adviser on the CDO, was also sued by the bank.
When Goldman sold the investments to a Luxembourg affiliate of LBBW in March 2006, they were represented as "safe, secure, and nearly risk free," according to the complaint. At the same time, Goldman senior executives privately observed that "it was game over" for subprime lenders and were reducing their exposure to the mortgages, LBBW said.
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