RiskMetrics Group has recently overhauled its core corporate governance yardstick (announced here).  

The loan markets began 2009 in the shadow of the credit crunch that began in the summer of 2007 and escalated to a credit meltdown in the fall of 2008. The average secondary bid for insti...

Few consumer protection statutes nationwide are as expansive as California’s Unfair Competition Law, a statute that protects consumers from “unlawful, unfair or fraudulent” business...

WHILE THE PUNDITS are declaring that the recession is over and the financial crisis has been abated, part of the aftermath is the continuing demand for corporate governance reforms by Con...

An uptick in mergers and acquisitions has led to more litigation seeking to stop the deals As 2009 has progressed, we have seen the return of significant public company mergers and acqui...

In In re Journal Register Co., 09-10769, 2009 Bankr. LEXIS 1737 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. July 7, 2009), Judge Allan Gropper of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York conf...

Special purpose entities (SPEs) have been used for years by various types of borrowers in financing transactions to isolate financial or other assets supporting a loan from the creditwort...