How Leading Philippine Companies are Using Bonds to Their Advantage
Issuers should consider the ambitiousness of their sustainability targets, any challenges in achieving the targets on schedule, and how they will prove their progress. The global market for sustainability-linked bonds ...more
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
This Client Alert examines the key issues that typically arise in connection with debt repurchase programs. It also looks at issues applicable to both bond and loan repurchases, as well as jurisdictional issues raised by the...more
The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) recently published an advisory document for public comment ahead of the publication of a legal memorandum for the regulation of the securitization field in Israel....more
The EU’s PRIIPs Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014) (the “PRIIPs Regulation”), which came into effect on January 1 this year, has had a significant effect on practices in the wholesale capital markets. Many new...more
Late in 2017, H.R.1, the federal tax reform bill (the “Federal Tax Act”) was signed into law. Effective January 1, 2018, the maximum federal corporate income tax rate decreased from 35% to 21%. ...more
On November 2, 2017, the House Committee on Ways and Means released a draft of its Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Bill”). The Tax Bill proposes to eliminate the federal tax exemption of interest income from all private...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued a regulatory notice requesting comment to revisions on a proposed rule that would enhance information disclosure standards for retail-size customer trades of corporate and...more
Tapping the Euromarkets - A number of Chinese issuers have issued bonds in the European debt markets recently. To date in 2015, more than ten Chinese companies have issued in excess of €9 billion of Euro-denominated...more
New rules relax certain structural and procedural legal restrictions, helping Spanish companies access debt capital markets. On 27 April 2015, the Spanish parliament passed Law 5/2015, of 27 April, of corporate finance...more
Restructuring decision broadly interpreting bondholder protections under the Trust Indenture Act may significantly impact out-of-court restructurings. On December 30, 2014, the US District Court for the Southern...more
More than two dozen senior executives, including lawyers from Latham & Watkin's Hong Kong and Singapore offices, led presentations and panel discussions at an industry conference focused on the Philippine bond market, hosted...more
The Treasury and the IRS offered two pieces of highly anticipated guidance on July 18 that are particularly relevant to the life insurance industry. ...more
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
In late 2013, Latham & Watkins hosted a restructuring conference, Maximizing Outcomes in Upcoming Asia Restructurings, at the Asia Society in Hong Kong. The conference featured a series of keynote speakers and panel...more