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An important treatment of modified standard form agreements

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The Court of Appeal has reversed the High Court’s decision that a modified standard form sub-participation agreement was a hybrid arrangement rather than a conventional sub-participation. The judgment is a useful illustration...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Subscription Agreements 101 – Back to Basics July 2024 - Subscription Agreements

We have said it before – the “credit cornerstone” of a subscription credit facility is the limited partnership agreement (the “LPA”) – it is the primary contract, together with any side letters, governing the relationship...more

White & Case LLP

Extension of consumer protection to farmers - new rules for entering into contracts

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On January 7, 2024, the Act of April 14, 2023, on Consumer Lombard Loans (the "Act") entered into force. The Act introduces significant changes in financing provided to farmers and extends consumer protection to farmers....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fore!ward June 2023 - Make-Whole Clauses: It's All About the Enforceability Question

Make-whole clauses (also known as prepayment premiums, call premiums or call protection) are provisions in financing transactions that require the borrower to make a specified payment to the lender if a loan is prepaid before...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Forbear and Move Forward April 2023 - Forbearance Agreements: Bringing the Deal Parties Together

During times of market disruption and economic uncertainty, the representations and covenants set forth in a credit agreement play an even more important role in the ongoing relationship among the loan parties and lenders....more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

California Court of Appeal Ruling Limits Application of Default Interest

The California Court of Appeal recently ruled that California law treats default interest measured against the unpaid principal balance of a loan as an unenforceable penalty. In Honchariw v. FJM Private Mortgage Fund, LLC...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

An Interpretation of ‘Discharge for Value’

As most in the loan market are by now aware, the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York issued a decision on February 16, 2021 In Re Citibank August 11, 2020 Wire Transfers that certain lenders were...more

Hogan Lovells

Impact of coronavirus on loans in Italy

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We describe below the legal impact on Italian loan transactions of the current health emergency caused by COVID-19 in light of the latest legislative measures, including a suspension of interest and principal payments on...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

L'Efficacia della clausola floor nei contratti di finanziamento

“Nel contratto di mutuo non è giuridicamente configurabile un tasso di interesse negativo che incida sul capitale mutuato. Conseguentemente, quando il tasso d’interesse sia stato pattuito in misura variabile, esso non può...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CA DBO concludes certain point-of-sale financing arrangements are loans, not credit sales

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On December 30, 2019, the California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) announced two actions regarding companies offering unregulated, point-of-sale financing to California residents.  In the first action,  the DBO...more

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Small business borrowers bring lawsuit alleging lender engaged in “rent-a-charter” scheme to make usurious loans

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A group of small businesses and their individual owners have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a New York federal district court against online lender Kabbage, Inc. that alleges Kabbage engaged in a “rent-a-charter”...more

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State High Court Decision Highlights National Split of Authority and Offers Lessons for Those Who Rely on Arbitration

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The Missouri Supreme Court recently upheld a refusal to compel parties to arbitrate their dispute before a different forum when the one listed in their agreement could not accept the case. ...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB/NY AG lawsuit against RD Legal Funding may signal greater scrutiny of non-loan financial products such as merchant cash...

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The CFPB and the New York Attorney General this week filed an action against RD Legal Funding, LLC, two of its affiliates, and their principal (collectively, “RD”), alleging that a litigation settlement advance product...more

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