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 ...

The contractual provisions relating to equity cure and excess cash flow are often negotiated and placed in various parts of syndicated bank loan documents, which lead to possibilities for...

Across the globe, as the wave of post-financial crisis corporate governance reform continues, the impact of the significant burdens on the regulators that are responsible for implementing...

Typical provisions for certain syndicated term loans have undergone a transformation in the last ten years, adopting some features traditionally found in high yield bonds. Investors and a...

This chapter discusses the expanded powers that a foreign bank or its parent (foreign banking organization or FBO) may exercise in the United States if it successfully elects to be treate...