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
Although a senior living property manager is not the party on the hook for the loan, it is important that they review and negotiate certain provisions in the owner’s loan documents that affect their rights and obligations in...more
After the Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition, the Second Circuit’s Kirschner ruling is the law of the land. Our Distressed Debt & Trading Team explores how the circuit court came to its decision that syndicated term...more
When is a loan not a loan? When it’s something else – for example, equity. This is one of those pesky facts and circumstances issues that plague courts, taxpayers, and tax advisers to no end. Debt- On one end of the...more
The New York State Supreme Court, County of New York (the “Court”) decided in Atlas Brookview Mezzanine LLC v. DB Brookview LLC, on November 18, 2021, that an accommodation pledge entered into in connection with a mortgage...more
As regulators, shareholders, investors and wider society increasingly focus their attention on ESG matters, they have crept up the boardroom agenda of large companies and financial institutions and are now firmly in the...more
With the use of LIBOR being phased out by the end of 2021 and its prevalence in corporate loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, floating rate notes, securitized products and derivatives products, nearly all lenders and borrowers...more
In sophisticated real estate financing transactions, most prudent lenders attempt to deter borrowers from filing for bankruptcy before loans are paid in full by providing in loan documents that such a filing constitutes an...more
A recent decision of New York’s highest court potentially strengthens the ability of lenders to bring suits against third parties for participation in a borrower’s breach of single purpose entity/bankruptcy remote loan...more
Beneficiaries often request that a trustee make them a loan from trust property. In an economic downturn, such requests are even more prevalent. As a general rule, a trustee should not want to make a loan to a beneficiary as...more
It’s beyond the scope of this blog to predict where the commercial real estate market is heading, but there are those who have predicted a downturn. If that turns out to be right, there may be more loans than usual going into...more
Most real estate attorneys would typically be dismissive of a transaction that places a deed in escrow as collateral for a loan. This is because it is universally known that any loan term that interferes with a borrower’s...more
A closely held business may come to our firm for any number of reasons. The owners may be selling the business, for example, or they may be thinking about spinning off a division. In some cases, the owners are considering the...more
Akin Gump London-based financial restructuring partner Liz Osborne and finance partners Amy Kennedy and Stephen Peppiatt discuss European bonds, loans and the various flavors of covenants in the current liquidity constrained...more
This presentation will address beneficiaries requesting loans from trustees. There are multiple issues that arise regarding the trustee’s authority to do so under the trust’s language and statutory and common law, and the...more
The following is not a white paper or an invitation to participate in a webinar. It is offered as a useful checklist for businesses to evaluate potential additional credit needs and to understand problems that could arise...more
Example 1. Borrower’s loan documents provide that borrower may obtain the release of noteholder’s lien on a portion of the collateral (Parcel C) if: (1) borrower pays a $1.5 million release price to pay down part of the...more
The following information accompanies a presentation Mike gave to members of the Arizona Commercial Mortgage Lenders Association (ACMLA) on October 9, 2018. Arizona Case Law – Credit Card Statute of Limitations - Mertola,...more
In an effort to summarize the highlights of the LEAN Email Blasts that we receive, we at Pepper Hamilton are providing this quick synopsis of the latest LEAN update. ...more
The Maryland General Assembly has enacted legislation (House Bill 274/Senate Bill 708) that significantly impacts secured lenders’ rights to enforce financing documents secured by residential property. The legislation --...more
Three recent decisions call attention to the fundamental issue of the extent to which courts will enforce loan agreements and guaranties in accordance with their terms rather than imposing uncertain standards of fairness,...more
A recent decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has significant implications for lenders in commercial loan transactions and for law firms that give legal opinions about the enforceability of loan documents....more