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Mayer Brown

NAV Credit Facilities: The Spectrum of Collateral Structures

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Executive Summary - Net Asset Value (“NAV”) credit facilities are a tool that borrowers may use to access financing based on the value of their underlying investment portfolio. The users of these facilities are generally...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

A Truly Bingeworthy Series July 2024 - Some Key Considerations When Lending to a Master-Series Fund

Master-series funds are definitely not on our desks on a daily basis; however, they do arise from time to time, and certainly as transactions are becoming more and more bespoke. Care should be taken by lenders when lending to...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

SEC Brings Action Against Convertible Debt Lender

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Curt Kramer and three companies owned by Kramer, 1800 Diagonal Lending Company, LLC, Power Up Lending Group, Ltd., and Geneva Roth Remark Holdings,...more

Allen Matkins

Judge Rules That A Front For Mexican Cartel Had The Capacity To Protect Its Own Interests

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California Corporations Code Section 25118(b) provides an exemption from the state's usury limitations for loans.  The exemption is subject to several conditions.  One condition is the existence of either a preexisting...more

King & Spalding

The Seventh Circuit Upholds District Court’s Decision That Safe Harbor Provision of Section 546(e) Applies to Privately Held...

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A recent ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides additional comfort for lenders receiving full repayment in connection with leveraged acquisitions. The U.S. Bankruptcy Code gives...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Supreme Court Declines to Review 2nd Circuit Decision That Syndicated Term Loans Are Not Securities

On February 20, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by the trustee of the Millennium Lender Claim Trust challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s August 2023 decision, in which...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Decades-Old Question Answered: Term Loans Are Not Securities

A recent appellate ruling, Kirschner v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., rejected the contention that syndicated term loans should be treated as securities, affirming the long-held view by market participants that these loans are...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Syndicated Loans are Not Securities, Court Rules

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In a win for banks and private credit lenders, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit recently ruled a $1.8 billion leveraged loan was not a security. The United States syndicated loan market had been anxiously...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

2nd Circuit Ruling Is Good For Syndicated Lending Stability

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On Aug. 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its highly anticipated decision in the case of Kirschner v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank NA. The three-judge panel unanimously upheld the district court's...more

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Kirschner v. JP Morgan: Second Circuit Affirms That Syndicated Loans Are Not Securities

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Second Circuit upholds SDNY’s finding that under Reves syndicated loans are not securities under federal law. Introduction - On August 24, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its highly...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Are Syndicated Term Loans Subject to Securities Laws?

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Syndicated term loans can be a significant piece of the capital stack when financing renewable energy projects; however, a crucial pending case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit could complicate the use of...more

Goodwin

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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Are syndicated loans actually securities? The SEC “is not in a position” to say.

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If you have been following the appeal in Kirschner v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 21-2726, you know that the Second Circuit, following oral argument on the Trustee’s appeal of the District Court’s decision that the...more

A&O Shearman

Second Circuit Considering Whether Syndicated Term Loan Notes Sold To Buyers Are “Securities” – Case Update: Kirschner v. JPMorgan...

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As we previously covered, on May 22, 2020, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a complaint asserting claims under state blue-sky laws as well as...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

A&O Shearman

The Scope of Article 8 Mandatory Choice-of-Law Rule

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The scope of the mandatory choice-of-law rule set forth in Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) section 8-110(a)(1), which provides that “the local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction . . . governs . . . the validity of a security,” is...more

Wiley Rein LLP

“Securities Claim” Exclusion Applied Where Notes Constituted a “Security” as Defined by the Securities Acts

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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, applying Michigan law, has held that an exclusion in an investment adviser’s professional liability policy applicable to claims arising from the sale of...more

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Loan activity evolves in Latin America

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Latin American loan issuance has felt the effects of COVID-19 disruptions, but lenders have remained open for business as borrowers turn to bilateral loan revolving credit facilities for liquidity. Loan markets in Latin...more

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Leveraged Loan Update: Millennium Court Decision Confirms Syndicated Loans Are (Still) Not Securities

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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

Dechert LLP

Some Good News for the Loan Industry—Loans Are Not Securities

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Although the loan industry has long looked at loans as being obligations that arise in a commercial lending relationship, which are therefore not securities under Federal and state securities laws, the law supporting this...more

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The ABCs of Fund Finance: Credit Facilities for Secondaries Funds and Funds of Funds

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Private equity funds raised the second-highest level of capital for investments in secondary private equity interests in 2016. According to Preqin, 19 funds secured $23 billion in investor capital.1 This level was surpassed...more

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Financial Services Quarterly Report - First Quarter 2017: Development of Crowdfunding in France

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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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Is Bank Debt a Security?: Dangerous Implications of the General Motors Litigation

GM’s term lenders had received $28 million in cash interest during the 90 days prior to GM’s filing, and $1.5 billion in full payment during the bankruptcy, subject to disgorgement if the term lenders proved to be...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

In Conflict With Other Circuits, Seventh Circuit Rules That Certain Transfers Involving Financial Institution Intermediaries Not...

Section 546(e) of the bankruptcy code prohibits a bankruptcy trustee from avoiding “settlement payment[s]”, or payments “made in connection with a securities contract,” that are “made by or to (or for the benefit of)”...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

[Event] Breakfast With Your Finance & Bankruptcy Lawyers: The Risks and Rewards of Financings in Europe - May 13, New York, NY

This breakfast session is jointly presented by Sheppard Mullin and Bird & Bird LLP, and will look at the key issues to consider when structuring financings involving European counterparties and examine whether there are real...more

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