Mezzanine Lending Video Series (Episode 1)
Advancing Agriculture: Security Interests and Article 9 Challenges (Part 1)
The key component of any subscription credit facility is the underlying capital commitments that are pledged to secure the facility. Virtually every lender will require some level of over-collateralization – meaning, investor...more
Executive Summary - Net Asset Value (“NAV”) credit facilities are a tool that borrowers may use to access financing based on the value of their underlying investment portfolio. The users of these facilities are generally...more
Our readers have been blessed with wonderful Fund Finance Friday articles dealing with the maintenance of collateral accounts in 'When Deposits Don’t Travel with Loans', control over collateral accounts in 'Control or Control...more
This is just a short note, with little actual utility, but it’s about something that’s really bothering me. Why are we so calm? What has anesthetized us?...more
Several weeks ago, I wrote a commentary called Funny Times in which I bemoaned the complete lack of coherent data, making the process of predicting the course of interest rates, cap rates and transactional velocity over the...more
Here at Dechert, we have market-leading practices in CRE CLO as well as corporate CLOs, including broadly syndicated and middle market structures. So, every day that I peer into these two alternate universes, I’m astonished...more
The US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the New York Fed) have announced the complete terms of a new Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) program, which is intended to address the...more
The new Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) program, which is intended to address the liquidity crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic through non-recourse lending collateralized by...more
On Tuesday, May 12, the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) announced additional information regarding the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (“TALF”), including a further revised Term Sheet and an initial set of answers to...more
On May 12, 2020, the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System (the “Fed”) published a revised term sheet for the Term-Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (the “TALF”)...more
On March 23 the Federal Reserve announced the creation of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF to support the asset-backed securities (ABS) market. The new facility (commonly referred to in the market as...more
Last week, the Federal Reserve announced additional actions to support the U.S. economy, which included expanding its Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (“TALF 2020”) to include legacy commercial mortgage-backed...more
TALF Extended to Legacy CMBS and CLOs - On April 9, 2020, the Federal Reserve unveiled an array of additional programs to bolster the U.S. economy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those programs is aimed at...more
Under the recently announced Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (the “2020 TALF”), the New York Federal Reserve will commit to lend on a recourse basis to a special purpose vehicle (the “TALF SPV”), which will...more