This note provides an overview of the designated lender counsel arrangement in certain large debt issuances in which the debt arrangers’ counsel is chosen by the issuer or equity sponso...

  Even as the equity markets worked through a difficult stretch globally in 2015, the equity derivative markets continued to play an important role for financial institutions, companies, ...

Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid, Kyoko Takahashi Lin, Laura Turano and Morgan Lee are pleased to write the global overview of Getting the Deal Through – Corporate Governance 2016, an annual ...

On July 28, 2016, The Clearing House issued a white paper, The Custody Services of Banks, which describes the role of bank-chartered custodians.  The paper discusses the services provided...

This textbook aims to completely revamp the law school curriculum for financial regulation and policy by teaching students the basics of regulatory framework for all parts of the financia...

This article first appeared in Compliance Reporter. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently finalized its business conduct requirements for security-based swap dealers (SBSDs).

  The 2008 global financial crisis ushered in the biggest explosion in new bank regulation around the world since the Great Depression. Even more so than then, this new regulation has bee...

Much ink has been spilled over the last several years about the ongoing convergence of the U.S. institutional Term Loan B market with the high-yield bond market, including by our firm. Th...

This article first appeared in Compliance Reporter. The Securities and Exchange Commission is slowly finalizing its rules under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act for the registration and re...