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In the wake of intense pressure in the global credit markets and continued turmoil in the stock markets, the US Treasury Department, in coordination with other G-7 governments, yesterday ...
On October 5, 2008, Lehman Commercial Paper Inc. (“LCPI”) filed a motion for protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for...
The Federal Reserve Board announced today the creation of a commercial paper funding facility to help provide liquidity to short-term funding markets. The facility enables the Federal Res...
Pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “EESA”), the U.S. Department of the Treasury has formally begun soliciting asset managers and other agents for the Tr...
As anyone who has been near a television screen, a newspaper or the Internet this past week knows, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the “Act”) was enacted under enorm...
On September 23, 2008, the United States Senate ratified the much anticipated fifth protocol (the “Protocol”) amending the income tax treaty between the United States and Canada.
On September 22, 2008, New York Governor David Paterson announced that New York State will regulate part of the credit default swap market, and the New York State Department of Insurance ...
On September 22, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) issued a policy statement (the “Equity Policy Statement”) that relaxed and clarified ...
Under an SEC Emergency Order effective today, all institutional investment managers that are Form 13F filers for the calendar quarter ended June 30, 2008, will be required to file each we...