Seth Eaton Discusses Modifications and Workouts of Commercial Real Estate Loans during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this alert, we present the key lessons to be learned from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) settlement with Sound Point Capital Management, LP (Sound Point), and discuss whether a similar enforcement...more
In September and October 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is administering its next mandatory Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions between U.S. Financial Services...more
The “Risk Retention Rule” has been in effect for a little over two years for asset-backed securities (“ABS”) collateralized by residential mortgages, and for over one year for all other classes of ABS. While a general market...more
In an eagerly anticipated (and much speculated upon) decision, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“DC Circuit Court”) issued a unanimous opinion on Friday, February...more
On February 9, 2018, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that treating managers of open-market CLOs as “securitizers” subject to the risk retention rules exceeded the statutory authority to promulgate rules to implement the risk...more