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Catastrophe bonds using industry-loss triggers have become increasingly popular among ILS investors and cedant sponsors. Industry loss catastrophe bonds pose less adverse selection risk from the point of view of...more
The growth in private credit (lending by institutions other than banks) has been one of the most significant capital market developments of the last decade. It is estimated that the size of the private credit market was...more
Louisiana recently amended its statutes regulating managing general agents (MGAs). Certain of the amendments conform Louisiana law to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners MGA Model Act (NAIC Model) adopted in...more
By vote of 3 to 2, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) on Jan. 24, 2024, adopted new rules and amendments (SPAC Rules) pertaining to special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), with the stated...more
The real estate industry – and much of our economy – is at a point where we must shift. With the pace of inflation and interest rate increases, some of those shifts will be large. And those large shifts may challenge the...more
In an unprecedented move, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently filed litigation against one underwriter of municipal securities and announced settlements with three others. The litigation and...more
In recent years, hotel sponsors and developers have increasingly turned to alternative capital sources, like preferred equity, to finance and reposition their existing assets and fund new acquisition and development...more
In this episode of “Don’t Take No for an Answer,” host Lynda A. Bennett is joined by Lowenstein Capital Markets & Securities partner Jared Kelly and Yelena Dunaevsky, Esq., Vice President, Transactional Insurance at Woodruff...more
During the latest webinar in our Energy Transition series, McDermott Partners Robert da Silva Ashley and John Bridge hosted Paul Pace, SVP and team leader at KeyBank, and Andrew Chen, managing director at CIT, to discuss the...more
On November 3, McDermott partners Robert da Silva Ashley and John Bridge will host Paul Pace, SVP and Team Leader at KeyBank, to discuss the current outlook of leading lenders in the US renewables and transactions space. More...more
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the real estate portfolios of investors and lenders, perhaps most disastrously in the hospitality sector. A recent American Hotel & Lodging Association report shows the industry lost...more
Direct listings have been gaining traction as an alternative to the traditional IPO approach to going public. A direct listing is the registered sale of a company’s stock and the listing of that company’s stock on an exchange...more
Amid intense focus on investor liquidity (and paths to potential liquidity) in private companies, we provide an update on developments around direct listings as an alternative to traditional IPOs in the United States. On...more
Climate change is forcing the commercial real estate industry to re-think the effectiveness of flood insurance that developers, lenders and investors have relied on for decades. Rising sea levels and more extreme weather...more
For companies seeking to finance general equipment assets via asset backed securitization (ABS) instruments, risk retention has become an important consideration. In response to the latest financial crisis, both the U.S. and...more
FINRA’s Proposed Amendments to the Corporate Financing Rules – Impact on Structured Notes - In April 2017, FINRA released a set of significant proposed amendments to its Rule 5110, known as the “Corporate Financing Rule.” ...more
Financial institutions, institutional investors and liquidity providers to the leveraged loan markets are finding themselves increasingly subject to new regulation in the United States and abroad. Both global and U.S....more
Investors, buyers and underwriters all insist on doing pre-transaction diligence to ensure that you have copies of all of your key documents and to assess whether these documents contain any unusual provisions. ...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 29, 2013 charged a school district in Indiana and its municipal bond underwriter with falsely stating to bond investors that the school district had been properly providing...more