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. ...

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 ...

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

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,...

Syndicated term loans continue to adopt selected features traditionally found in high yield bonds. The implications of this trend and the related risks are important to the credit decisio...

Interested parties in the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases are increasingly turning to mediation as a means of reaching consensual plan terms, in addition to more targeted mediat...

The Chinese government has substantially beefed up its anti-corruption enforcement in recent years, resulting in arrests and trials of high-level state officials and prominent executives ...