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The Pine Cliffs Resort hosted the FFA’s 2024 Global Leadership Summit this week where key players and leaders from across the industry gathered to discuss macroeconomic, geopolitical, policy, legal, regulatory and other...more
Emerging markets offer a wealth of opportunity across a wide range of sectors. Yet there can be a catch, even for sophisticated parties, especially financial institutions: a greater number of risk indicators, or 'red flags',...more
Liquidity solutions are a topic du jour in fund finance. With bank balance sheets somewhat restricted by macroeconomic concerns and risk-weighted asset regulations, fund finance borrowers and lenders have sought creative ways...more
Side letters have gone through a massive and largely unspoken transition over the last four to five years. From a position where a few investors in a closing might have quite short side letters dealing with niche issues we...more
NAV loans are getting constant coverage in the press now. For those of us that spent years trying to direct focus to the potential of NAV lending, this is a welcome development. Admittedly, not all of the coverage is...more
More than 1,800 industry players attended the 13th annual Global Fund Finance Symposium that wrapped up yesterday afternoon at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. There was a lot to talk about in terms of market evolution...more
Our Distressed Debt & Claims Trading Team discusses trading issues related to DQ provisions in broadly syndicated credit facilities and trends providing borrower/sponsor friendly terms creating potential pitfalls for...more
During this session, Sam Koplik, Partner and Stephanie McCann, Partner and Co-Chair of Finance moderated a panel that provided key insights on financing strategies in the current market and discussed specific challenges and...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. Guest edited by our London team, this edition focuses on the opportunities that come from stressed...more
As interest rates rise and a potential recession looms, we’ve seen a flight to quality as new entrants seek to participate in our fund finance market. While most deals on our books have just one lender and one fund as...more
Flexible and attractively priced financing has been a driving force of the M&A market for a number of years now, a trend that even the pandemic did not reverse. Persistently low interest rates have helped keep borrowing costs...more
On October 18, 2021, New York Attorney General Letitia James directed two virtual currency lending platforms to immediately cease their unregistered and allegedly unlawful activities in New York and sent letters to three...more
African loan and bond issuance fell by just under 10% in the first half of 2021, year-on-year, with lenders still jittery after Zambia missed a bond repayment in November 2020 to become the first African sovereign to default...more
This alert provides an overview of COVID-19 governmental financial assistance measures available in some of the principal jurisdictions. Our team can cover advice on governmental financial assistance across the globe. The...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented economic challenges for numerous industries throughout the world that have put tremendous stress on the global financial markets. As a result, numerous companies have been...more
Many early stage and emerging growth companies utilize venture lending as a source of funding to compliment equity financing. But what happens to these loans in difficult and uncertain times?...more
The widespread reach of the coronavirus (“Covid-19”) outbreak has unfavorably impacted numerous industries all over the world and sent shock waves across the global financial markets. As the outbreak has spread globally, a...more
On 31 January 2020, the World Health Organization has announced the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCov), sourced from Wuhan, as a Public Health Emergency of Concern. The impact of the coronavirus outbreak, social...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Sector Views, its annual report examining how each financial sector is performing....more
On Nov. 15, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the “Board”) released its semiannual Financial Stability Report. The report presents the Board’s current assessment of the resilience of the U.S. financial...more
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
It was reported this month that ING Groep NV and a major international bank recently completed the first live securities lending transaction settled using distributed ledger technology (“DLT”). The transaction involved the...more
Financial Industry Developments - Rejecting "True Lender" Arguments, California District Court Dismisses Claims Against Student Loan Servicers - This past Thursday, September 22, a federal district court in the...more