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Par un arrêt du 28 janvier 2025, le Tribunal administratif de Cergy Pontoise (n°2100034) approuve l'utilisation du logiciel Standard et Poor's Capital IQ pour justifier le taux d'intérêt d'obligations convertibles....more
Welcome to this edition of Credit Conditions, a quarterly publication from McDermott Will & Emery that analyzes recent debt market trends. The fourth quarter of 2024 marked a pivotal moment in the debt market, as the...more
As we launch into the next quarter century, there is much speculation about what the future holds for private equity (PE) as an asset class and driver in dealmaking. Momentum started to pick up in 2024 with the Fed announcing...more
Venture capital financing activity in 2023 contracted for the second consecutive year in the face of rising interest rates, concerns regarding the trajectory of the economy and continued geopolitical tension. VC-backed...more
On 28 February 2024, Paul Chan, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, delivered the 2024-25 Budget (the “Budget”). Starting off by acknowledging the “challenging external environment” including “heightened geopolitical...more
A look at how funds across asset classes – including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, and debt – calculate hurdle rates. In a recent piece in this series, our colleagues showed that funds set...more
Jonathan Wishnia, Chair of the Mortgage & Structured Finance practice at Lowenstein Sandler, and real estate investor, talks with Lowenstein commercial real estate lawyers Stacey Tyler and Stephen Tanico on today’s episode of...more
Back in March of 2021, we covered a number of developments pertaining to the end of LIBOR that came out of certain announcements made early that month by the Intercontinental Exchange Benchmark Administration (the “IBA”),...more
Interest rates rise, demand exceeds supply and the fund finance market adapts to a changing landscape. As we seek depth and breadth of new liquidity in our market, we have often wondered how to bring more non-bank lenders...more
As private credit lenders move up market, Mike Ewald, partner at Bain Capital Credit, joins the Private Market Talks podcast to discuss how big the market might get, when – and if – the syndicated market comes back, and what...more
Underneath the headline points, the Budget contained a number of measures designed to fulfil the Chancellor’s objective of encouraging growth and investment. There was broadly good news for those investing in UK real estate....more
The Federal Reserve has adopted a final rule that provides benchmark replacement rates based on SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) for contracts governed by U.S. law that reference the overnight and one-, three-, six-,...more
Everyone is talking monetary policy as though they have been watching the Federal Reserve closely for years. Some people are even claiming to have had lunch with Paul Volcker in the ‘80s. Inflation and rising rates are a...more
On 15 December 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) proposed amendments to Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act) (the Proposed Rule), which governs the structure and...more
Hitting the year-end deadlines was hard. Your kind words eased that pain like a week’s vacation on a remote island with no wifi. I have saved every single one of those emails, texts and LinkedIn messages and filed them away...more
The active underlying deal environment comingled with the December 31st LIBOR transition deadline combined to make November the busiest month in the history of Cadwalader Fund Finance. We have no doubt that’s been the case...more
Amending Fund Finance facilities to replace LIBOR as the primary benchmark interest rate has all the makings of a potential client experience disaster for your Fund sponsor clients. ...more
Amending Fund Finance facilities to replace LIBOR as the primary benchmark interest rate has all the makings of a potential client experience disaster for your Fund sponsor clients. This is not just theoretical – we are...more
As we approach the end of LIBOR, the next phase of the transition is already upon us: incorporating the new fallback rates and market conventions into our transactions. This article highlights SONIA, the Bank of England’s...more
A small business investment company (SBIC) is a privately owned and operated investment fund that makes long-term investments in U.S. small businesses and is licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under the...more
In This Issue. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published new procedures for federal deposit insurance applications from applicants that are not traditional community banks; federal banking regulators released...more
I recently was chatting with a residential mortgage broker and learned that conventional mortgages, those that qualify for purchase by Fannie Mae, carry a higher interest rate than “jumbo” mortgages, those that are too large...more
Regulators are increasing pressure on financial institutions to demonstrate that they are proactively addressing the transition away from LIBOR. On December 23, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services...more
In this episode, Akin Gump investment management partners Kelli Moll and Stephen Vine report on the firm’s recent New York Private Investment Funds Conference, the topics covered from the dais and the hot topics going into...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