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Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms... more +
Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms helping to make sense of insurance, employment, tax, securities, M&A, risk management, and every other consideration touched by this crisis. Follow the channel for a daily email brief of the latest and best updates. less -
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Fraud and Corruption in Covid Bounce Back Loans - A Perspective for Lenders

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Under the government Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), small businesses struggling due to the pandemic could obtain a fully government-secured loan of up to £50,000 with no repayments required for the first 12 months....more

White & Case LLP

M&A financing keeps the leveraged finance market beating

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A rebound in European corporate transactions has driven a double-digit acceleration in leveraged finance earmarked for M&A (excl. buyouts), with a robust pipeline setting the stage for an active 2022. In the summer of...more

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The UK Government’s Bounce Back Loan Scheme - are there lessons to be learned?

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The UK’s National Audit Office (the “NAO”) has reported that an estimated 11% - a total of £4.9 billion out of £47 billion issued - of the 1.5 million loans granted under the Government’s COVID-19 Bounce Back Loan Scheme (the...more

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Financial institutions M&A: Consumer Finance

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Financial institutions M&A sector trends: consumer finance — H1 2021 and outlook for H2 2021 - Hyper-specialisation of the European consumer finance market continues, with POS, entrepreneur, freelancer, migrant and payroll...more

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Examining the ABC risks as the mining & metals sector gains critical momentum

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Key considerations around bribery and corruption risks, as the mining & metals sector is gaining critical momentum in the world's energy transition toward a low-carbon future. Mining & metals in a low-carbon world - The...more

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Woolard Review sets out vision for unsecured credit: now over to the FCA to make it happen

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The Woolard Review team has acted swiftly in publishing their recommendations to the FCA, publishing their findings just over two months after the initial Call for Input closed. The Review contains a number of recommendations...more

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Market reset could trigger restructurings in 2021

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HEADLINES - In March 2020, credit insurer Euler Hermes forecast a 43% increase in insolvencies in the UK in 2021, as well as a 26% uptick in France and 12% in Germany. - By December 2020, ratings agency S&P was...more

King & Spalding

Lenders’ Duties when Enforcing Security

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Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and global economic slowdown, we are being asked by borrower and lender clients alike whether lenders have a duty of care as regards enforcement. Two recent cases before the...more

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UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 Brings Significant Changes to Law

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The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 received royal assent on 25 June 2020. Many of the provisions of the act are based on the bill which was initially proposed pre-COVID-19, with a framework having been set out...more

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Special Situations and the UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act

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The enacted Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (the Act) introduces three permanent reforms to the existing insolvency legislation and certain temporary measures designed to address the immediate impact of COVID-19 on UK...more

Orrick - Finance 20/20

UK Government’s COVID-19 Support for Businesses: A First Stocktake Three Months On

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Since March, governments around the world have implemented unprecedented measures in an attempt to avoid a severe economic downturn as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United Kingdom, HM Treasury (“Treasury”) has...more

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[Podcast] UK Financial Restructuring During COVID-19

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The economic landscape has changed immeasurably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to cheap credit has disappeared, and many companies have raced to draw down on existing facilities in an effort to access as much...more

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Role of Financial Services Examined in Treasury Committee Inquiry on COVID-19

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On 24 April 2020, the Treasury Committee of the UK Parliament published its terms of reference for the next stage of its inquiry into the economic effect of COVID-19, which includes a focus on measures designed to hold the...more

Alston & Bird

COVID-19: What It May Mean for Landlords and Lenders Under Their CRE Facility Agreements

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Our London Finance team highlights some of the potential defaults that may arise under CRE facility agreements and some other issues that may need to be tackled as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to filter...more

A&O Shearman

Liquidity, MAC and Cessation of Business in English Law Loan Financings

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the responses adopted by governments around the world to mitigate its human cost will have a considerable impact on economic activity. We are seeing the forced closures of businesses and restrictions...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

COVID-19: Will Borrower Defaults Increase?

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On 11 March 2020, the Bank of England (the “Bank”) warned of “an economic shock that could prove sharp and large” resulting from the coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019. Presenting a package...more

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