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
This Client Alert examines the key issues that typically arise in connection with debt repurchase programs. It also looks at issues applicable to both bond and loan repurchases, as well as jurisdictional issues raised by the...more
What does the future hold for NPLs? There's still plenty of business to be done, but buyers and sellers alike will need to change tack to get the most from the available opportunities....more
From 1 January 2022, a new French law will impose annual notification requirements on lenders benefiting from a limited recourse security interest from a French guarantor. Failure to comply may result in French law limited...more
In light of the growing pandemic of COVID-19, the French government has made a number of unprecedented decisions in order to support business activities. Among an extensive panoply of measures relating to short-time work, tax...more
This document provides a summary of the policy changes that have been announced in multiple jurisdictions in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We have selected the most relevant topics, which may be of interest for managing...more
April 10, 2020 On March 25, 2020, the French Government has - through the French public investment bank BPI - launched a program of State-guaranteed loans (“prêts garantis par l’Etat”) in order to help French-based businesses...more
Faced with the impact of the Covid-19 health crisis on the local and European economy, the President of the French Republic and the government announced several emergency measures in order to support businesses in difficulty....more
As part of our periodic updates, here is an overview of recent developments of relevance to participants in the real estate finance market across certain key jurisdictions in Europe....more
Setting the scene The long anticipated European Commission (DG COMP) report on "EU loan syndication and its impact on competition in credit markets" (see here) has finally been published. The study primarily focuses on the...more
Par une décision du 19 juin 2017 (n° 392543, GE Money Bank), abondamment commentée, le Conseil d’État avait, de façon pragmatique, jugé que le taux de marché par référence auquel il convient d’apprécier si une société a...more
• 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
C’est un arrêt dont on aurait sans doute voulu disposer il y a quelques années de cela, lorsque le contentieux des emprunts dits (le plus souvent par les emprunteurs) « toxiques » accordés à des collectivités territoriales...more
The Situation: On October 4, 2017, ordinance no 2017-1432, which addresses the modernization of the legal regime of assets management and financing debt, was published. The Result: The reform introduces four new exceptions...more
In April 2017, the European Commission ("Commission") published a tender offer seeking an assessment of the EU market for loan syndication and possible implications under EU competition rules. The successful candidate will...more
The search for yield continues...Techniques honed in the more mature US leveraged finance market continue to be imported into European deals and then across to the APAC markets, requiring skillful reworking in some cases to...more
During the nascent stages of crowdfunding as a fund raising strategy, there was a great deal of uncertainty in France as to the legality of such activities. In 2014, initial regulations were enacted applicable to crowdfunding...more
AMF Doctrine – Direct Lending by French Funds - The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (the French financial markets regulator, the “AMF”) has published on 27 June 2016 an Instruction n° 2016-02. This instruction is...more
Public Consultation on the Origination of Loans by Funds - Within the framework of the implementation of the ELTIF Regulations in France, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (“AMF”) launched a public consultation on 22...more
The end of a legal saga - On April 7, 2014, the Commercial Court of Paris put an end to the Coeur Défense’s legal saga by acknowledging the implementation of the two safeguard plans adopted for Heart La Défense (HoLD),...more