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Loan Market Update: Q1-Q3 Recap, Trends & What’s Next

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From Q1-Q3 of 2023, the U.S. loan market was marked by novel deal patterns and uneven market activity. Initially, the bulk of deals were portfolio work, including amend & extend transactions, covenant relief amendments and...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Prêts liés à la durabilité : essor du financement durable et mise à jour des indications aux prêteurs et aux emprunteurs

Un prêt lié à la durabilité s’entend de tout type d’instrument de prêt qui est structuré de façon à inciter l’emprunteur à atteindre des objectifs de rendement en matière de durabilité prédéterminés, ambitieux, importants et...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Sustainability-Linked Loans: Growth of the Sustainable Finance Market and Updated Guidance for Lenders and Borrowers

A sustainability-linked loan (SLL) is any type of loan instrument structured to incentivize the borrower to achieve ambitious, material and quantifiable predetermined sustainability performance objectives. The SLL market is...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Going Green February 2022 - Green Loans Series, Part 1 – Green Loans and the Green Loan Principles

In our January edition of REF News and Views, we discussed some key recent ESG developments in Europe and the UK in the financial markets. We want to follow this up over the coming months with a series of articles where we...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Something Special, April 2021 | Issue No. 23 - Insurance Broker Letters in Commercial Real Estate Financings: Why Do We Need Them?

Insurance is a key and critical element to any commercial real estate financing. After all, such financings are usually limited recourse, such that the properties will be owned by a special purpose vehicle with no other...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2021 PRIVATE CREDIT SURVEY REPORT - Despite Private Credit’s Sunny Outlook, Questions Emerge About Lender/Investor Congeniality,...

In February, Katten conducted a survey of 112 private credit industry professionals that showed how a large percentage of private equity investors and lenders in the private credit industry expect deal flow to increase in...more

Alston & Bird

Discontinuing GBR LIBOR: The Time to Act Is Now

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Our Finance Group explains why the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate remains an essential task amid COVID-19 and urges loan market participants not to wait on devising a transition plan. ...more

Alston & Bird

How Does My Business Qualify for a Sustainability-Linked Loan?

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The third instalment of our Finance Group’s dive into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) finance considers sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), the Sustainability Linked Loan Principles, and why and how your business...more

White & Case LLP

LIBOR and the transition to SONIA: compounding the problem?

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In 2012, the Wheatley Review recommended reform rather than replacement of LIBOR, on the basis that a transition to a new benchmark would pose an unacceptably high risk of financial instability. Reform came in the form of a...more

BCLP

Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility Through Lending

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Financial institutions continue to develop products to encourage Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals. The Loan Market Association has recently published Sustainability Linked Loan Principles to guide the use of loan...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

LMA and LSTA Announce Extended Green Loan Principles

Major international syndicated lending organizations — the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), Loan Market Association (LMA) and Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA) — recently published an extended set...more

Orrick - Finance 20/20

LMA Paper on the Consequences of a No-Deal Brexit on the European Loan Market

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On December 3, the Loan Market Association (“LMA“) published a paper on the impact of a no-deal Brexit scenario on lending to borrowers located in EU countries by UK lenders, and the wider negative impact on the EU economy....more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Dealing on Written Standard Terms of Business—Guidance from the English Court of Appeal

The English Court of Appeal considers whether the use of model form agreements could constitute dealing “on written standard terms of business” The decision will give comfort to lenders who use precedents or model form...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Covenant-lite Terms Continue to Develop in Europe

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As predicted a year ago, the adoption of US-style covenant-lite terms in European leveraged deals continues apace. This is hardly surprising given that the existence of ultra-low interest rates are sparking intense...more

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