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NOTE 23 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
NOTE 23 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Relationship with Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Ocwen’s Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, William C. Erbey, also serves as Chairman of the Board of Altisource, HLSS, Altisource Residential Corporation (Residential) and Altisource Asset Management Corporation (AAMC). As a result, he has obligations to Ocwen as well as to Altisource, HLSS, Residential and AAMC. As of September 30, 2013, Mr. Erbey owned or controlled approximately 13% of the common stock of Ocwen, approximately 23% of the common stock of Altisource, approximately 1% of the common stock of HLSS and approximately 9% of the common stock of AAMC. Mr. Erbey’s percentage interest in Residential declined to 4% as a result of an additional public offering by Residential that closed on October 1, 2013.

Relationship with Altisource

Under the Services Agreement, Altisource provides various business process outsourcing services, such as valuation services and property preservation and inspection services, among other things. Altisource also provides certain technology products and support services to Ocwen under the Technology Products Services Agreement and the Data Center and Disaster Recovery Services Agreement. In addition, under the Data Access and Services Agreement, Ocwen has agreed to make available to Altisource certain data from Ocwen’s servicing portfolio in exchange for a per asset fee. Under the Support Services Agreement, Ocwen and Altisource provide to each other services in such areas as human resources, vendor management, corporate services, accounting, tax matters, risk management, law and consumer psychology.

In connection with the March 29, 2013 sale to Altisource of the diversified fee-based business acquired in connection with the Homeward Acquisition, Ocwen agreed to extend to August 31, 2025 the terms of the Services Agreement, the Technology Products Services Agreement, the Data Center and Disaster Recovery Services Agreement and the Intellectual Property Agreement with Altisource. In addition, Ocwen agreed to expand the terms of the Services Agreement to apply to the services as they relate to the Homeward servicing platform and further to establish Altisource as the exclusive provider of such services as they relate to the Homeward servicing platform. In addition, Ocwen agreed not to establish similar fee-based businesses (or establish relationships with other companies engaged in the line of similar fee-based businesses) that would directly or indirectly compete with diversified fee-based businesses as they relate to the Homeward servicing platform acquired by Altisource.

Certain services provided by Altisource under these contracts are charged to the borrower and/or loan investor. Accordingly, such services, while derived from our loan servicing portfolio, are not reported as expenses by Ocwen. These services include residential property valuation, residential property preservation and inspection services, title services and real estate sales.

Our business is currently dependent on many of the services and products provided under these long-term contracts which include renewal provisions. We believe the rates charged under these agreements are market rates as they are materially consistent with one or more of the following: the fees charged by Altisource to other customers for comparable services and the rates Ocwen pays to or observes from other service providers.

As disclosed in Note 4 – Business Acquisitions, on April 12, 2013 in connection with the sale to Altisource of the diversified fee-based business acquired in connection with the ResCap Acquisition, we agreed to establish additional terms related to existing servicing arrangements between Altisource and Ocwen for mortgage servicing assets acquired from ResCap.

The agreement provides that during the term of the existing servicing arrangements between Altisource and Ocwen (i) Altisource will be the exclusive provider, except as prohibited by applicable law, to Ocwen and all of its subsidiaries and affiliates, of certain services related to the ResCap business; (ii) Ocwen will not establish similar fee-based businesses that would directly or indirectly compete with Altisource services as they relate to the ResCap business; and (iii) Ocwen and all of its subsidiaries and affiliates will market and promote the utilization of Altisource’s services to their various third-party relationships. Additionally, the parties agreed to use commercially reasonable best efforts to ensure that the loans associated with the ResCap business are boarded onto Altisource’s mortgage servicing platform. The cash consideration paid by Altisource to Ocwen under the Agreement totaled $128.8 million.

Also as disclosed in Note 4 – Business Acquisitions, on March 31, 2013 we acquired from Altisource its 49% equity interest in Correspondent One.

 

On December 27, 2012, we entered into a senior unsecured term loan facility agreement with Altisource and borrowed $75.0 million. The proceeds of this loan were used to fund a portion of the Homeward Acquisition. Borrowings under the Unsecured Loan Agreement bear interest at a rate equal to the one-month Eurodollar Rate (1-Month LIBOR) plus 675 basis points with a Eurodollar Rate floor of 150 basis points. In February 2013, we repaid this loan in full.

Relationship with HLSS

Ocwen and HLSS Management entered into an agreement to provide to each other certain professional services including valuation analysis of potential MSR acquisitions, treasury management services and other similar services, legal, licensing and regulatory compliance support services, risk management services and other similar services.

As disclosed in Note 3 – Transfers of Financial Assets, Ocwen has sold to HLSS certain Rights to MSRs and related servicing advances. OLS also entered into a subservicing agreement with HLSS on February 10, 2012, which was amended on October 1, 2012 and again on September 30, 2013, under which it will subservice the MSRs after legal ownership of the MSRs has been transferred to HLSS.

Relationship with Residential

On December 21, 2012, OMS entered into a 15-year servicing agreement with Altisource Residential, L.P., the operating partnership of Residential, pursuant to which Ocwen will service residential mortgage loans acquired by Residential and provide loan modification, assisted deed-in-lieu, assisted deed-for-lease and other loss mitigation programs.

On February 14, 2013, OLS sold a pool of non-performing residential mortgage loans to Altisource Residential, L.P. pursuant to a Master Mortgage Loan Sale Agreement. The aggregate purchase price for the pool of loans was $64.4 million and the gain recognized by Ocwen on the sale was not significant.

Relationship with AAMC

On December 11, 2012, Mr. Erbey received 52,589 shares of AAMC restricted stock pursuant to the Altisource Asset Management Corporation 2012 Special Equity Incentive Plan and a Special Restricted Stock Award Agreement in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of AAMC and Altisource.

On December 11, 2012, Ronald M. Faris, our President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Ocwen, received 29,216 shares of AAMC restricted stock pursuant to the Altisource Asset Management Corporation 2012 Special Equity Incentive Plan and a Special Restricted Stock Award Agreement, in connection with the services he provides AAMC through his employment with Ocwen.

Relationship with Former Owner of Homeward

As consideration for the Homeward Acquisition, Ocwen paid an aggregate purchase price of $766.0 million, of which $604.0 million was paid in cash and $162.0 million was paid in 162,000 Preferred Shares issued to certain private equity firms ultimately controlled by WL Ross & Co. LLC (the Funds), that pay a dividend of 3.75% per annum on a quarterly basis. Each Preferred Share, together with any accrued and unpaid dividends, may be converted at the option of the holder into shares of Ocwen common stock at a conversion price equal to $31.79. Mr. Ross is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WL Ross & Co. LLC and Invesco Private Capital, Inc. and the managing member of El Vedado, LLC, each of which directly or indirectly controls the Funds. Mr. Ross became a director of Ocwen in March 2013. On September 23, 2013, the Funds exercised their right to convert 100,000 of the Preferred Shares into 3,145,640 of common stock. On the same date, Ocwen repurchased the shares of common stock from the Funds for $157.9 million.

The following table summarizes our revenues and expenses related to the various service agreements with Altisource and its subsidiaries and HLSS for the periods September 30, and amounts receivable from or payable to at the dates indicated:

    Three Months     Nine Months  
    2013     2012     2013     2012  
Revenues and Expenses:                                
Altisource:                                
Revenues   $ 5,185     $ 4,156     $ 15,390     $ 12,229  
Expenses     13,153       6,826       36,650       20,537  
HLSS:                                
Revenues   $ 20     $ 125     $ 172     $ 165  
Expenses     386       780       1,615       1,773  
 
    September 30,
2013		     December 31,
2012		  
Net Receivable (payable)                
Altisource   $ (3,489 )   $ (5,971 )
HLSS     22,337       (25,524 )
    $ 18,848     $ (31,495 )