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Dodd-Frank, Title II: Where the FDIC and the “Orderly Liquidation Authority” Meet the Bankruptcy Code

The FDIC is currently responding to one of the worst financial crises in the history of the nation’s banking system. Sheila Bair, Chairman of the FDIC, expects that 2010 “will be the high water mark for the banking crisis.”1...more

Dodd-Frank Bill Reshapes Businesses

The passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Bill”) represents the most ambitious and thorough regulatory reform of the laws governing the financial industry since the Great Depression....more