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Sustainability Coordinators: A Transatlantic Comparison

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On April 24, 2024, the Loan Market Association (the “LMA”) published its Sustainability Coordinator Letter (the “LMA Letter”). According to the LMA, the LMA Letter is “intended to provide a starting point for a sustainability...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

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

McGuireWoods LLP

UK Loan Market Association Publishes New and Updated LIBOR Transition Documentation

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On November 23, 2020, the Loan Market Association (the “LMA”) announced the publication of several new and revised documents, with the purpose of helping market participants incorporate appropriate transition mechanisms into...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

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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

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Canadian Investors Take Note: Budding Green Loan Market Set to Ramp Up in 2018

Green bonds have been steadily gaining in popularity, becoming a high-profile instrument in capital markets and now green loans are set to ramp up in 2018. Green loans are getting their own voluntary recommended guidelines...more

Bennett Jones LLP

When Is a Loan “Green”?

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New international guidelines on environmental sustainability adopted from green bonds allow lenders and borrowers to designate “green loans" - More than US $150 billion in “green bonds”—bonds that fund projects that...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

US Loan Market Adapts to European Bail-In Directive

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LSTA publishes model provisions for use in US law-governed credit agreements to assist in adopting new EU bail-in rules. European Economic Area (EEA) financial institutions are now subject to a new set of regulatory...more

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