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Banking Sector Credit Agreements

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Quarter End Fireworks, June 2025 - Letter of Credit Refresher

Many subscription credit facilities will provide for the issuance of letters of credit in addition to the funding of loans. A letter of credit is an irrevocable undertaking for the payment of money issued by a bank at the...more

Mayer Brown

Participations in the Fund Finance Market

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Participations are increasingly being utilized in the finance industry, serving as a mechanism for lenders to manage credit exposure, diversify loan portfolios, optimize capital utilization, and...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Defaulting Lenders Under Unitranche Facilities

The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) defaulting lender provisions were released in 2011 in the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis. Some 12 years later, recent distress in the banking sector has thrust...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Unhappy Lenders Challenge Aggressive Debt Exchanges

Takeaways - Loan agreement provisions allowing borrowers to repurchase their loans to take advantage of steep debt discounts and restructure their debt became popular in the wake of the financial crisis. The meaning of some...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Post-Revlon Reaction: Pitfalls for Lenders in the Proposed Erroneous Payment Language

To address the key issue in the litigation In re: Citibank August 11, 2020 Wire Transfers, on March 19, 2021, the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (LSTA) circulated a Market Advisory that contains draft erroneous...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

LIBOR Update: IBA Announcement Expected

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This bulletin provides a timely update on two emerging issues related to LIBOR transition – namely, requirements that administrative agents (including private credit lenders acting in that role on their facilities) may be...more

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LIBOR Replacement Update

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As most market participants are aware, in 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a financial regulatory body in the UK, announced that LIBOR would be phased out. The announcement was made, in part, in recognition of the...more

A&O Shearman

Revisions to EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive Finalized

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A new Directive amending the EU's Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, widely referred to as "BRRD2", has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New European Legislation Creating Headaches (and Opportunities) for Borrowers

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New legislation gives European regulators the power to write-down, change the terms of, cancel, and convert into equity the liabilities (including loan commitments) of troubled European lenders. New credit agreements...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

PF Newsletter: Article 55 of the BRRD

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From 1 January 2016, all EEA incorporated banks and credit institutions are required to include a term in any non-EEA law governed contract under which they have liabilities, giving contractual recognition of the bail-in...more

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