On March 22, the SEC approved a rule amendment to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer securities transactions to two business days after the trade date (T+2) from...
On March 1, the SEC adopted rules requiring hyperlinks to filed exhibits listed in the exhibit indexes of most SEC current and periodic reports and registration statements. The rules cove...
On March 1, the SEC announced that foreign private issuers (FPIs) that prepare financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) must file using eXtensible Bus...
Articles & Books
The Banking Law Journal, Volume 134, Number 3, March 2017
The authors of this article discuss a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruling that noteholders were entitled to payment of an optional redemption premium at the make-who...
On February 14, 2017, President Trump approved a joint resolution of Congress repealing the SEC’s rule requiring resource extraction disclosure. The joint resolution was passed pursuant...
Decision restores certainty to out-of-court debt restructurings
In a surprising 2014 decision, the District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the Trust Indenture Act ...
The following is the Davis Polk visual memorandum analyzing the Federal Reserve’s final rule on total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC), eligible long-term debt (LTD) and clean holding com...
Or, Some Perspective on Indenture Language Restoring the Commercial Understanding of “Make-Whole” Premiums That Prevailed Before Summer 2016
A covenant review service recently procla...
On January 4, the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California issued a decision in a case brought by shareholders against Volkswagen arising out of the well-public...
An issuer of high yield bonds won dismissal of claims brought by retail noteholders who claimed that a debt swap of new secured notes for unsecured notes, made available only to instituti...
