Williams Mullen Mezzanine Lending Video Series - Episode 5
Unlawful Debt Collection Claims - RICO Report Podcast
Advancing Agriculture - Identifying and Addressing Distressed Debts
Pillsbury's Industry Insights - Episode #22: Real Estate Market Update
Path Forward: Borrowing Base Redeterminations In A Restructuring World
THE WONDER YEARS WEBINAR
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Part III - How Banks Think About Loan Defaults: Lessons for Borrowers in Troubled Times
THE WONDER YEARS WEBINAR - LOAN REGIME METHOD OF SPLIT DOLLAR LIFE INSURANCE
THE WAY WE WERE
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part II - How Banks Think About Loan Defaults: Lessons for Borrowers in Troubled Times
Mad Dogs and Panameños!
It's (Not) Too Late, Baby!
Switch Hitter! Maximizing the Flexibility of Split Dollar Life Insurance to Create Maximum Financial and Tax Leverage
SWITCH HITTER! Maximizing the Flexibility of Split Dollar Life Insurance to Create Maximum Financial and Tax Leverage
FATHER KNOWS BEST
Podcast: Questions & Concerns About Documentation: A Conversation with Colin Adams, M-III Partners
Podcast: Credit Funds: Credit Default Swaps in the Distressed Limelight
I’ve written at least a dozen articles about the dramatic impact the new CRA is going to have on banks. Until now, only about 1.2% of bank CRA examinations end with a failing grade. But, by the estimates of the regulators, if...more
As we kick off 2024, the focus on the unavailability of certain benchmarks continues on. To refresh, we have already seen the benchmark for US Dollars generally replaced with the Secured Overnight Financing rate as...more
As we finish the last season of LIBOR replacement, the fund finance market is busy amending our loan documents to include SOFR as the interest rate benchmark for U.S. dollar loans. While the cessation date for USD LIBOR is...more
On December 16, 2022, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) adopted a final rule (the “Final Rule”) to implement the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (the “LIBOR Act”). The Final Rule follows...more
The LIBOR transition process continues to roll along. New transactions are (mostly) being closed without using LIBOR any more, and many legacy transactions are naturally transitioning when refinanced or renewed this year....more
Hitting the year-end deadlines was hard. Your kind words eased that pain like a week’s vacation on a remote island with no wifi. I have saved every single one of those emails, texts and LinkedIn messages and filed them away...more
In our October 2019 alert, we advised that LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) will not be available for use as an interest rate index after December 31, 2021 (the LIBOR Cessation). As the end of 2021 approaches, here is...more
On April 6, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Senate Bill S297B/Assembly Bill 164B (the “New York Legislation”), which paves the way for a smoother transition from US Dollar LIBOR and, in particular,...more
The State of New York has enacted a new law that should ease the transition away from US dollar LIBOR for legacy financial contracts that are governed by New York law but do not contain modern benchmark fallback provisions. ...more
By the end of October 2020, lenders should begin adopting a “hardwired” approach to replacing the benchmark interest rate for new loan originations with LIBOR-based interest rates. That’s according to the updated ARRC...more
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) expires at the end of 2021. Used since the early 1980s, LIBOR is the most referenced global short-term interest rate, and a “standard benchmark”....more
The process of identifying and implementing a new benchmark rate of interest to replace LIBOR for U.S. Dollar-denominated loans is underway. On account of the widely reported charges of manipulation in connection with the...more
In July 2017, Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), announced that by the end of 2021, the FCA would no longer seek to compel or persuade panel banks to submit quotes for LIBOR....more
The reference rate provided by selected panel banks to the LIBOR administrator, ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) and that is used to establish interest rates on many loans, notes, bonds and other financings, derivatives,...more
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
On July 12, 2019, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance, Division of Investment Management, Division of Trading and Markets, and Office of the Chief Accountant (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
On December 21, the Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates published a paper aiming to help market participants prepare in advance of 2021, when LIBOR may not be available. ...more
Since the loss of liquidity in the inter-bank market following the global financial crisis and more recently the emergence of LIBOR-manipulation concerns, regulators have announced plans for reforming benchmark rates. Given...more
Being a constant follower of overnight bank rates, I am fascinated with commentary regarding the end of LIBOR. LIBOR has not been around since the beginning of time, but only since January 1, 1986. So, being technically...more
Plans to end the long reign of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as one of the world's most often-used interest rate benchmarks have recently been confirmed by several top financial regulators. On July 27, 2017,...more
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the interest rate tied to trillions of dollars in loans and other financial products, will be eliminated by the end of 2021. British regulators announced the timeline on Thursday,...more
So, what is LIBOR? LIBOR—the London Interbank Offered Rate—is one of the most ubiquitous benchmarks for determining short-term interest rates in bank (and other) lending. LIBOR rates are short-term fixed rates quoted for...more
EBA Updates Single Rulebook Q&As - On October 16, 2015, the European Banking Authority (EBA) updated its Q&As on the single rulebook, publishing four new questions. The single rulebook Q&As relate to the CRD IV package...more