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The Comparative Guide to Environmental, Social and Governance Law
GAO Report Finds that Leveraged Lending Has Not Threatened Financial Stability
On Dec. 16, 2020, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (the GAO) issued a report to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the …
SEC Adopts Amendments to MD&A and Financial Disclosures
On Nov. 19, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the disclosure rules affecting Management’s Discussion …
LIBOR Benchmark Administrator to Cease Publication of One-Week and Two-Month U.S. Dollar LIBOR on Dec. 31, 2021, and the Remaining U.S. Dollar LIBOR Settings on June 30, 2023
U.S. Banking Regulators Issue Statement That Banks Should Nonetheless Cease Entering Into LIBOR Contracts as Soon as Practicable and, in Any Event, No …
Trump Administration Proposes Rule to Thwart Resurrection of Leveraged Lending Guidance
On Nov. 5, the federal banking regulatory agencies[1] (the Agencies) gave notice of a proposed rule (the Proposed Rule) that would elevate to the status …
UK Government announces plan for a Green Industrial Revolution
That’s Gold: Federal Court gives Gascoyne DOCA the green light
IBOR Transition: What’s the Protocol for Derivatives?
Introduction In connection with the anticipated discontinuance of LIBOR and similar benchmarks, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association …
2020 Global Bank Review: #disruption
LIBOR Transition: Where things stand and what you should do now
New CDI Clarifies the Form S-3 Eligibility of Companies That Go Public via Merger Into a SPAC
On Sept. 21, 2020, SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) posted a Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (CDI) regarding restrictions …
Second Circuit holds that so-called flip clause priority provisions are protected by the swap safe harbor under the Bankruptcy Code
