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Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
Note 20 – Related Party Transactions
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, 2014, Mr. Erbey owned or controlled approximately 14% of the common stock of Ocwen, approximately 29% of the common stock of Altisource, approximately 1% of the common stock of HLSS, approximately 28% of the common stock of AAMC and approximately 4% of the common stock of Residential. At September 30, 2014, Mr. Erbey also held 3,620,498 options to purchase Ocwen common stock, of which 3,220,498 were exercisable. On April 22, 2014, Mr. Erbey surrendered 1,000,000 of his options to purchase Ocwen common stock. During the second quarter of 2014, Ocwen recognized the remaining $5.4 million of previously unrecognized compensation expense associated with these options as of the date of surrender. At September 30, 2014, Mr. Erbey held 873,501 options to purchase Altisource common stock and 87,350 options to purchase AAMC common stock, all of which were exercisable.
Our business is currently dependent on many of the services and products provided by Altisource under various long-term contracts, including the Services Agreements, Technology Products Services Agreements, Intellectual Property Agreements and the Data Center and Disaster Recovery Services Agreements. Under the Services Agreements, Altisource provides various business process outsourcing services. Under the Technology Products Services Agreements and the Data Center and Disaster Recovery Services Agreements, Altisource provides technology products and support services. In addition, we have entered into (i) Support Services Agreements pursuant to which we and Altisource provide administrative and corporate services to each other and (ii) a Data Access and Services Agreement pursuant to which we make available to Altisource certain data from our servicing portfolio in exchange for a per asset fee. The revenues and expenses related to our agreements with Altisource for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013 are set forth in the table below.
Services provided by Altisource under the Services Agreements with Ocwen are generally 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 services. We believe the rates charged for these services are market rates as they are materially consistent with one or more of the following: the rates Ocwen pays to or observes from other service providers and the fees we believe Altisource charges to other customers for comparable services.
Ocwen and HLSS provide each other certain professional services including valuation analysis of potential MSR acquisitions, treasury management services and other similar services, licensing and regulatory compliance support services, risk management services and other similar services under a Professional Services Agreement.
We have also entered into a long-term servicing and a support services agreement with Residential and AAMC, respectively.
The following table summarizes revenues and expenses related to our agreements with Altisource, HLSS, AAMC and Residential (and, as applicable, their subsidiaries) for the three and nine months ended September 30 and net amounts receivable or payable at the dates indicated:
 
Three Months
 
 Nine Months
 
2014
 
2013
 
2014
 
2013
Revenues and Expenses:
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
Altisource:
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
Revenues
$
10,716

 
$
5,185

 
$
30,007

 
$
15,390

Expenses
27,099

 
13,153

 
70,577

 
36,650

HLSS:
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
Revenues
$
84

 
$
20

 
$
458

 
$
172

Expenses
345

 
386

 
1,590

 
1,615

AAMC
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues
$
251

 
$

 
$
952

 
$

Residential
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues
$
4,618

 
$
493

 
$
12,141

 
$
606


 
September 30, 2014
 
December 31, 2013
Net Receivable (Payable)
 

 
 

Altisource
$
(12,626
)
 
$
(3,843
)
HLSS
(17,812
)
 
(59,505
)
AAMC
278

 
943

Residential

 
50

 
$
(30,160
)
 
$
(62,355
)

As disclosed in Note 4 – Fair Value, Ocwen has sold to HLSS certain Rights to MSRs and related servicing advances. During the nine months ended September 30, 2013, we completed HLSS Transactions relating to Rights to MSRs for $109.8 billion of UPB and received $388.5 million from the sale of Rights to MSRs and $3.5 billion from the sale of the related advances. We did not complete any sales of Rights to MSRs to HLSS during the nine months ended September 30, 2014. If and when legal ownership of the MSRs is transferred to HLSS, OLS will subservice the MSRs pursuant to a subservicing agreement, as amended, with HLSS.
On March 3, 2014, in the first Ginnie Mae EBO Transaction, Ocwen sold Ginnie Mae EBO Loans and transferred the related servicing advances to HLSS Mortgage for $612.3 million. On May 2, 2014, in connection with the second Ginnie Mae EBO Transaction, we transferred $20.2 million of advances to HLSS SEZ LP. The transfer of advances in both transactions did not qualify as sales for accounting purposes. See Note 5 – Loans Held for Sale for additional information.
On June 26, 2014, we entered into a servicing agreement with HLSS Mortgage LP under which we agreed to service mortgage loans with a UPB of approximately $396.9 million as of that date. On July 31, 2014, mortgage loans with a UPB of $92.9 million were added under this agreement.
On July 14, 2014, holders of our Preferred Shares elected to convert the remaining shares into shares of common stock. On the same date, Ocwen repurchased all of the converted shares of common stock. The Preferred Shares were originally issued to certain private equity funds managed by WL Ross & Co. LLC (the Funds) as partial consideration in the acquisition of Homeward. Mr. Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. 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 or manages the Funds. Mr. Ross has been a director of Ocwen since March 2013. See Note 13 – Mezzanine Equity and Note 14 – Equity for additional information.
In accordance with the terms of the Homeward merger agreement, we are entitled to assert retained liabilities claims on or before September 26, 2014, inclusive of reasonable liabilities in excess of the retained liabilities acquired and subject to certain additional procedures as set forth in the merger agreement. The aggregate amount of the indemnification recovery is limited to a maximum of $75.0 million. We have recorded receivables of $28.3 million and $13.6 million at September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively, related to losses expected to be indemnified through retained liabilities claims.