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In Practice: European Middle Market CLOs Could Rise in 2024 - Despite Some Challenges

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This article describes the current challenges in developing a European MM CLO market, and how asset managers may overcome them. Originally published in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law -...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

IOSCO Consults on Good Practices for Leveraged Loans and CLOs

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions, or IOSCO, has published a Consultation Report on good practices for consideration in relation to leveraged loans and CLOs....more

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Debt Download - July 2023

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Welcome to Debt Download, Goodwin's monthly newsletter covering what you need to know in the leveraged finance market. Are the debt capital markets this summer as hot as the weather? Read on to find out!...more

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How CLOs are dealing with a post-SVB world

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Collateralized loan obligations (CLOs)—investment structures that buy up leveraged loans and debt securities, package them into tranches with varying levels of risk and return, and sell them to investors—had minimal direct...more

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Debt Download - December 2022

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In the inaugural edition of Debt Download, we covered recent trends in the U.S. debt finance markets. This month, we take a look at what’s happening in the U.K. and Europe....more

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Downgrades, defaults, distressed debt and refinancing

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Abundant liquidity, a red-hot refinancing market and improving credit ratings combined through the first half of 2021 to limit defaults and ease any near-term pressure on the balance sheets of US borrowers. Borrowers...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Uptier Exchange Transactions Remain in Vogue, Notwithstanding Litigation Risk

The U.S. leveraged loan market has grown exponentially since the end of the Great Recession. From 2010 to 2020, loan volumes have risen from approximately $500 billion to nearly $1.2 trillion. This ballooning loan volume can...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Collateralized Loan Obligations: Emerging Litigation Risks

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I. Introduction - Financial experts are forecasting significant increases in borrower defaults on leveraged loans held in collateral loan obligations (“CLOs”). From the ashes of these defaults will arise litigation similar...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Kirschner Decision—Implications for CLOs and Syndicated Loans

On May 22, 2020, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss in Kirschner v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., finding, inter alia, that the syndicated loans at...more

Mintz - Bankruptcy & Restructuring Viewpoints

Are Leveraged Loans Subject To Securities Laws? It Depends…

Leveraged loans continue to be a topic of interest in the current environment, particularly when they are pooled and securitized as collateralized loan obligations. A recent decision sheds light on whether and when leveraged...more

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European leveraged finance: A bifurcated balancing act: Conclusion

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In a market that has seen notable highs and lows since the financial crisis, while remaining ever-vigilant for red flags, a degree of consistency is beginning to take hold in European leveraged finance . The European...more

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European leveraged finance: A bifurcated balancing act: Leveraged loan issuance: Lenders look beyond buyouts

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HEADLINES - Buyouts and M&A secured a combined €75.4 billion of loan issuance in 2019 - Proceeds used for buyout issuance alone were down by more than 30 per cent to €38.7 billion when compared to the €56.6 billion...more

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Financial Stability Board Assesses Financial Stability Implications of Expanding Leveraged Loans and Collateralized Loan...

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The Financial Stability Board has published a report on the vulnerabilities associated with leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations. In the report, the FSB assesses how the leveraged loan and CLO markets have...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

FSB Issues Report on Vulnerability in the Leveraged Loan Market

On Dec. 19, 2019, the Financial Stability Board issued a report titled “Vulnerabilities Associated with Leveraged Loans and Collateralised Loan Obligations”. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) coordinates at the...more

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SEC's Leveraged Loan Market Outlook

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On September 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee held a hearing to discuss the risks of increased leverage in the loan market and the potential impact leveraged loans and collateralized...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

IMF Finds Leveraged Lending an Area of Concern, But Risks Are Mitigated

On April 10, 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held a press conference to discuss its semiannual Global Financial Stability Report (the GFSR), which assesses key risks facing the global financial system. The GFSR...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

FSB Launching Inquiry Into Leveraged Loans

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international body composed of representatives from governments, financial institutions, and international standard-setting, regulatory and central bank bodies that monitors and makes...more

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Ten years on: The surprising resilience of European leveraged finance: The market pauses for breath in 2018

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• In Europe, leveraged loan issuance is down 28 per cent year-on-year to €202.5 billion in 2018, but is up on all years between 2014 and 2016 • High yield bond issuance is down 37 per cent year-on-year • Leveraged loans...more

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Proskauer’s 2018 Global High-Yield Bond Study

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Overview and Methodology - Welcome to this seventh edition of Proskauer’s Global High-Yield Bond Study, our analysis of market trends for high-yield bond offerings. Using analyses from our proprietary database of...more

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CLOs Under the Volcker Rule: New Exemptions, New Issues, New Obligations

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Under the final version of the Volcker Rule issued this week, issuers and sponsors of new CLO issuances should consider structuring CLOs to conform to the exclusions contained in the rule, and banks and bank affiliates that...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Inside M&A - Summer 2013

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A Closer Look at Leveraged Dividend Recapitalizations - With merger and acquisition activity down over the course of 2012 into 2013, and a weak market for initial public offerings (IPOs), many private equity firms have...more

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CLO Update: New FDIC Rules on "Higher Risk Securitizations"

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The FDIC's new rules (promulgated per the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act) for calculating deposit insurance assessments for insured depository institutions, including "large institutions" and "highly complex...more

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