Being deemed an “insider” has important ramifications for creditors in bankruptcy. For example, the otherwise-applicable 90-day preference period expands to one year for insiders. Whe...

COMMENTARY BY MARSHALL HUEBNER When a company files for Chapter 11 protection a second, third or even fourth time, who’s to blame? As is true of a company’s initial Chapter 11 filing,...

CoCos are capital instruments (Tier 2) or perpetual instruments (AT1) which, upon the occurrence of a trigger event, convert to equity, or the principal amount is written down (either on ...

  Ronan Harty authors the United States chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2015, which covers the regulation of mergers and joint ventures in 77 jurisdictions worldwide. ...

  In last year’s edition of The International Insolvency Review, we discussed the tension between the ‘universalist’ and ‘territorialist’ approaches to cross-border insolvencies...

French insolvency law currently provides for seven restructuring and (pre-)insolvency proceedings, which can be classified into two subgroups: two court-assisted proceedings (ad hoc manda...

  Although individual states in the United States have laws that govern the relationship between debtors and their creditors, insolvency law in the United States is primarily dictated by ...

The SEC may soon adopt Regulation SCI, which it proposed in March 2013 in the wake of several high-profile systems problems in the securities markets. In a recent guest commentary in Trad...

It has been several years since the financial crisis, and now banks seeking acquisitions know that they need to have high levels of capital, strong management teams and good asset quality...

2013 was another landmark year for the United States Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Despite severe budgetary restrictions, hiring freezes, and a 16-day government shutdown,...