This article examines whether and when the common interest privilege attaches to communications among co-proponents of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code....

While Washington’s power to regulate large banks and insurance companies as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) under the systemic importance regime established by the...

One key provision of the Dodd-Frank Act requires reporting of over-the-counter swap transactions. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has finalized detailed regulations in this area ...

In the August 2012 decision in the Tropicana case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware’s denial of a creditor g...

U.S. bank regulators have proposed to apply the Basel III capital rules to virtually all U.S. banking organizations. If adopted, the U.S. Basel III proposals would represent the most comp...

2013 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, 2013, Annette Nazareth and G...

Section 7 of the Clayton Act, enacted in 1914 and amended in 1950, is the principal US antitrust statute governing mergers and acquisitions. Section 7 prohibits acquisitions of assets or ...