After a volatile and challenging year, US direct lenders moved into 2021 with reputations enhanced and teams strongly positioned to fund new deals. But we cannot discuss current direct lending in the US without casting a...more
8/6/2021
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The disruption to capital markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has not shifted the overall timeline of regulators and industry bodies for the replacement of US dollar LIBOR with SOFR by the end of 2021.
With the expected...more
8/4/2020
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The Bottom Line: On May 22, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York concluded that broadly syndicated term loans are not "securities". This decision is highly significant to the US...more
6/2/2020
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