Davis Polk lawyers Meyer C. Dworkin and Monica Holland recently contributed a chapter to The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2014, Second Edition. In ?...

On March 12, the SEC issued a 400-page rule proposal that, if adopted as proposed, would impose a multitude of new compliance requirements on The Options Clearing Corporation (“OCC”),...

COMMENTARY BY MARSHALL HUEBNER Interest rates that remain near zero and debt maturities that have been pushed out to 2017 and 2018 have helped drive Chapter 11 filings to historic lows....

Davis Polk lawyers Timothy Graulich, Giorgio Bovenzi, James I. McClammy and Hiroshi Sugiyama recently published an article in the March issue of NBL (New Business Law), a Japanese law jou...

In the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) rules require a broad range of U.S. and non-U.S. market participants to clear certain swap t...

The past several years have seen a growing number of lawyers searching for meaningful and interesting post-retirement activities where they can make use of a lifetime’s accumulation of ...

2014 is shaping up to be another significant year for U.S. regulatory reform. In a piece that appeared in the Financial Times’ FT Trading Room on January 3, 2014, Annette Nazareth and G...

The recently published December/January 2014 edition of International Financial Law Review (IFLR) magazine included the results of a poll of in-house legal counsel at some of Europe’s t...