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Liability Management Transaktionen

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Das steigende Zinsniveau und die angesichts des unsicheren Marktumfelds immer noch große Zurückhaltung von Investoren stellen viele Unternehmen vor große Herausforderungen bei ihrer künftigen Finanzierung. Insbesondere...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Buying Bonds or Selling Tulips: Dutch Auctions and Other Debt Repurchase Strategies for PE

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Bond issuers may wish to pursue an unmodified reverse Dutch auction for debt repurchases, an effective but underutilised transaction template that is gaining popularity. During the second half of 2022, amid ongoing...more

White & Case LLP

Outlook for Africa brightens after challenging first half to the year

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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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Illinois Supreme Court Holds Challenge To GO Bonds Is Barred By Laches, But Avoids Underlying Constitutional Issues

On May 20, 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court finally put to rest a long-simmering challenge to the validity of around $14 billion of Illinois general obligation bonds. The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed, albeit on...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Illinois Appeals Court Reignites GO Bond Challenge

On August 6, 2020, an Illinois appellate court ruled that a petition by political activist John Tillman seeking leave to invalidate approximately $16 billion of Illinois’s general obligation bonds (“GO Bonds”) should be...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

An Update on the Venezuelan Debt Crisis: A Lack of Regime Change and Continued U.S. Sanctions Delay Prospects for a Near-Term Debt...

Here’s an update on recent political, social, and economic developments in Venezuela. From our perspective as a blog focused on insolvency and restructuring topics, the upshot of what’s been taking place in Venezuela is that...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Commonwealth Finds Common Ground: Deal with Bondholders May Be a Turning Point as Puerto Rico Seeks to Emerge in Early 2020

The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (Oversight Board) announced Sunday that it had reached an agreement with bondholders regarding the terms of a plan of adjustment that would resolve $35 billion...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Fed Concludes That Banks Have Improved Management of Leveraged Lending Risks Even as Noninvestment-Grade Debt Has Grown

On May 6, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) published its annual Financial Stability Report....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Venezuela Debt Update: Recent Developments in Arbitrations that Could Impact Restructuring Efforts

It’s hard to find something positive these days to write about Venezuela. Some basic facts tell the story of the misery there. Consumer prices this year might rise one million percent. The minimum wage was increased by...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2018 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance: New York’s High Court Allows...

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In an overlooked aspect of the recent New York Court of Appeals decision in Cortlandt St. Recovery Corp. v. Bonderman1, New York’s high court has allowed direct claims to move forward against two private equity firms for the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bondholders announce framework for Commonwealth-COFINA Settlement; Oversight Board and Government say the deal is “Not...

On May 14, a large coalition of stakeholders in the COFINA-Commonwealth litigation, announced a proposed settlement outline to resolve the long-running dispute over who owns the sales and use taxes pledged by COFINA to secure...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Venezuelan Debt Crisis: Serious Financial Problems Plague the South American Country

Perhaps this is one of the first articles you’re reading about the debt crisis in Venezuela. It won’t be the last. The situation there is bad and will get worse. ...more

Bracewell LLP

Tax Reform Could Indirectly Eliminate Direct Pay Subsidy For Outstanding Tax Credit Bonds

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An article released by The Bond Buyer on November 14, 2017, reports that, if Congress were to pass the proposed legislation released by the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2, 2017...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Volatility and Uncertainty Continue in the US Capital Markets"

The U.S. capital markets experienced continued volatility throughout much of 2016, as the bond and equity markets were affected by a series of significant events: the November U.S. presidential election; the June Brexit vote;...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The Impact of PROMESA on Creditors

On June 30, 2016, the United States Senate passed the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act” (“PROMESA”) and it was quickly signed into law by President Obama. PROMESA enables the Commonwealth of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Bankers' poll: TLAC and the future of bank debt

To say bank bonds had a rocky start to 2016 would be an understatement. Over the first weeks of January, the market’s significant gains from last year were essentially wiped out, with European issuers hit particularly hard....more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Glossary of Important Securities Regulation Terms and Definitions

This Glossary is designed to provide law students taking Securities Regulation with a tool that will assist them in learning the basic language of securities law and achieve a working knowledge of the fundamental principles...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Distressed Downloads - June 2015

A Battle in the Making in the Oil and Gas Sector: Second Lien vs. High Yield Debt - In the oil and gas industry, there is a storm brewing between holders of second lien debt and unsecured high yield bonds. These...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

The Third Circuit Affirms the Denial of Third-Party Releases for Lack of Adequate Disclosure

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the decisions of the District and Bankruptcy Court denying, for reasons of inadequate disclosure, the approval of a third-party release provision in the Chapter 11 plan of...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Shedding Light on China’s Massive Shadow Banking Market - Landmark Corporate Bond Default - Part 1

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The debt level of the PRC is rising. It is estimated that the PRC’s corporate debt could hit US$13.8 trillion in 2014, surpassing that of the United States (“U.S.”) as the largest in the world. This has raised increasing...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Five Things To Know When Contemplating the Issuance of Municipal Debt

Municipal financings are often perceived as a very complex, and even overwhelming, undertaking. The various rules and regulations which govern the process oftentimes seem complicated and difficult to understand. Keep in mind...more

Morgan Lewis

Bank of Russia Adopts Basel III Regulation

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Any subordinated debt, including Eurobonds, issued after 1 March 2013 must comply with the new rules in order to qualify as regulatory capital....more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Municipal Debt Reform Legislation Introduced in State Senate

Originally published in The Legal Intelligencer on February 26, 2013. A package of reform-minded bills has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate by Senator Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) and others that, if enacted,...more

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