<< Financial Crisis Overview
- Clark Wilson
- Duane Morris
- Lane Powell
- Littler Mendelson
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
- Mintz Levin
- Morrison & Foerster
- Ober|Kaler
- Orsi, Arone, Rothenberg, Iannuzzi & Turner
Other Key Analysis
- Accounting
- Credit Default Swaps
- Employers/ERISA Retirement Plans
- Environment & Energy
- Executive Compensation
- Health
- Mortgages
- Securities
- Taxes
- The States
- Further Reading
The Global Financial Crisis: Complete Reading List
Economic Stabilization Act
- Highlights of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
- The Implications of the Federal Bailout Legislation
- Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
- First Look at Treasury Plan; Money Market Fund Bailout
- Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Neel Kashkari Remarks before the Institute of International Bankers
- Congress Passes Economic Rescue Provisions - Key Decisions Left to Treasury
- Senate Passes Rescue Provisions - Support in House Unclear
- Hedge Fund Failure Predictions and Strategies: How to Catch a Falling Knife and Not Get Cut
Implementation
TARP & The Capital Purchase Program
- As The Dust Settles...
- Update to Treasury's Capital Purchase Program
- TARP and the Various Federal Tent Poles: Will it be Enough?
- New Liquidity and Capital Alternatives for Financial Institutions: Treasury's TARP Capital Purchase Program; FDIC's Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program
- Newsletter of the Banking And Specialty Finance Practice Group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Economic Stabilization Act: Overview of Transactions Involving Troubled Assets
FDIC Liquidity Guarantee
Money Market Investor & Commercial Paper Funding Facilities
- Federal Reserve Announces Creation of Money Market Investor Facility
- The Federal Reserve Posts "Capital Welcome!" Sign and Opens the Gate a Little Wider for Noncontrolling Investments in Banks by Private Equity Firms and Others
- Money Market Fund Bailout Update; First Look: New Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Liquidity Facility
- New Mortgage Rescue Proposal Leverages Federal Housing Administration Guarantees to Refinance Loans
Accounting
- FBI Probes Role of 26 Firms in Financial Crisis
- Study on Mark-to-Market Accounting
- Market Based Evaluations In A Cost Basis Environment: Derivatives and Other Depreciable Balance Sheet Paper
- Fair Value and the Recent Market Turmoil
Credit Default Swaps
- SEC Chairman Cox Calls for Credit Default Swaps Regulation
- Credit Default Swaps as Insurance: One Regulator or Many?
- Subprime Practice Group Advisory: Decision Supports Enforceability of Credit Default Swaps
- The Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group III Report Includes Detailed Suggestions for Financial Intermediaries
Employers/ERISA Retirement Plans
- And You Thought the Bailout Was Bad: Employment Law Risks in the Current Financial Crisis Employee Benefits Alert: Financial Markets Impact ERISA Retirement Plans and Plan Fiduciaries
- Economic Stabilization Act: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
- Immigration Alert: Important Employer Obligations to Consider During an Economic Downturn
Environment & Energy
- Summary of Cleantech Provisions in the Bailout Bill
- Financial Bailout Package Contains Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy
- The Sun Will Continue to Shine on Renewable Energy: A Surprise Ending to the Renewable Energy Tax Credits Debate
- Bailout Legislation Offers Significant Tax Refund for Coal Exporters
Executive Compensation
- Executive Compensation Restrictions Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
- The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Extensively Regulates Executive Compensation, but Leaves Many Unanswered Questions
- Economic Stabilization Act: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Health
- Equal Mental Health & Substance Use Benefits Realized
- Bailout Legislation Contains Key Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
Mortgages
- Manatt Closes One Of The First Loan Portfolio Sales In The Current Market: Lessons Learned On How To Manage A Transaction In Today's Environment
- Agencies Consider Reduction of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Debt Risk
- Bush Enacts Watershed Housing Bill Providing New Funding and Regulation for Mortgage Industry
- Public Finance Advisory: Bush Signs 2008 Housing Act, Providing Relief to Housing Finance Markets
- Financial Services Report, Summer 2008
- Federal Reserve's New Mortgage Lending Rules to Take Effect October 2009
- Steps for Lenders to Consider in Connection with Mortgage Modification Programs
- Avoiding Lender Liability in Sub Prime Loans
- Kneejerk Collateralizing Due to Economy Rather Than the Deal
Securities
- Nasdaq Suspends Minimum Listing Requirements
- NASDAQ Suspends Minimum Bid and Minimum Value of Public Float Rules
- SEC Chairman Cox Calls for Credit Default Swaps Regulation
- SEC Seeks to Combat Market Manipulation
- SEC Extends Emergency Short-Sale Restrictions and Reporting Requirements
- UK's Short-Selling Prohibition Emergency Restrictions on Short Selling in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
- SEC Clarifies Short Sale Restrictions and Related Disclosure Requirements New Restrictions on Short Sales; Disclosure Requirements for Short Sales and Positions; and Relaxed Issuer Repurchase Requirements
- SEC Takes Emergency Action on Shorting; South Dakota Short Selling Ballot Initiative
- UK's New Short-Selling Prohibition
- SEC Issues Emergency Orders on Short Selling and Issuer Repurchases
Taxes
- Bailout Bill Tax Provisions - An Executive Summary
- Bailout Legislation Extends Tax-Free IRA Distributions to Charities Through 2009
- Notice 2008-83: The IRS Offers Reassurance to Troubled Banks
- Federal Reserve Board Liberalizes Rules for Investments in Banks
- New Tax Rules Re Certain Investment Fund Managers' Deferred Compensation
- MoFo Tax Talk
- Bailout Legislation Offers Significant Tax Refund for Coal Exporters
The States
Further Reading
- The White Knuckle Business Cycle of the Finance Market
- Issues to Consider in Connection with the Reevaluation of Credit Card Lending and Charge-Off Policies
- Take Stock of Your Own House: Proactively Responding to the Subprime Crisis
- Slowing economy presents opportunities and challenges: buying & selling financially distressed businesses
- Recovery Legislation Creates Both Opportunities and Risks for Government Contractors
- Spotlight - "Hanging on to Your Building (or Otherwise Working Out in the Post-Bailout Era)"
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Declines to Recognize Bear Stearns’ Cayman Liquidation
- Planning for Success in Changing Markets