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Outline CRR III / CRD VI - Final Basel III Standards

Mayer Brown on 6/21/2024

I. IMPLEMENTING BASEL III THROUGH THE CRR III REGULATION - The Basel III standards comprise a package of reforms that were largely agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS") in December 2017 and set out...more

European leveraged finance enters new era

White & Case LLP on 3/1/2024

High interest rates weighed down on deals, precipitating a drop in leveraged loan issuance in 2023. However, there are reasons to be optimistic that deal activity will pick up in 2024 - As our latest leveraged finance...more

European Enforcement Guide

Alston & Bird on 2/5/2024

In the current economic climate, it is important that lenders understand how they can enforce security and debt claims, to help in assessing options in the event of default by their customers, and when structuring new...more

Subdued macro conditions shelve major loan activity

White & Case LLP on 8/16/2023

Loan issuance across all major jurisdictions saw year-on-year double-digit declines during the first half of 2023, as high inflation and rising interest rates continued to weigh on loan activity The first half of 2023 has...more

Mobility@McDermott: Monthly Update - 7/2023

McDermott Will & Emery on 8/2/2023

1. FEDERAL COURT OF JUSTICE RULES ON ASSIGNMENT CLAUSE IN T&CS FOR CAR FINANCING - In April 2023, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, “BGH”) ruled that an assignment clause used by a German captive bank...more

Fixed and Floating Charges: the Key is Control, but the Key to Control is Drafting

Sullivan & Worcester on 5/19/2023

In our April webinar “Risk Mitigation Techniques in Trade Financing Structures”, which I delivered with my colleagues Sam Fowler-Holmes and Maria Capocci, we discussed methods to mitigate risks all the way along the...more

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/14/2022

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

V&E’s Comprehensive Primer On Sustainable Finance

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 6/2/2021

The amount of money invested in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) funds has increased exponentially in the past year, and as banks and investors increasingly turn their attention to ESG factors, companies are also...more

Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR): What To Expect

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/11/2021

As recently confirmed, the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), becomes effective on 10 March 2021. The SFDR imposes sustainability-related disclosure requirements on financial services institutions such as...more

The Ex-Im Bank as Biden Begins

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/20/2021

For several years, until May 2019, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) lacked sufficient directors to field a quorum for approval of any new commitments for transactions other than to approve short-term...more

Ten years on: The surprising resilience of European leveraged finance: The market pauses for breath in 2018

White & Case LLP on 2/13/2019

• In Europe, leveraged loan issuance is down 28 per cent year-on-year to €202.5 billion in 2018, but is up on all years between 2014 and 2016 • High yield bond issuance is down 37 per cent year-on-year • Leveraged loans...more

Proskauer’s Second Annual Survey on Trends in Private Credit Markets

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/18/2018

We are delighted to share with you the results from our second annual Trends in Private Credit survey. This year’s survey was conducted via web from January 9th to February 9th 2018. In this report, we will share...more

New European Legislation Creating Headaches (and Opportunities) for Borrowers

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/22/2016

New legislation gives European regulators the power to write-down, change the terms of, cancel, and convert into equity the liabilities (including loan commitments) of troubled European lenders. New credit agreements...more

The Atypical Creditor: How EU Bail-In Provisions Impact Borrowers

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/21/2016

On January 1, 2016, the European Union’s “bail-in” provisions went into effect. The bail-in provisions, authorized under the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) and implemented by the Single Resolution Mechanism...more

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