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
Credit documentation transfer provisions, which may in the past have been viewed as rather boilerplate, have increasingly become points of contention in the documentation process. Today these provisions are often highly...more
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to adversely impact businesses across the globe, for the past year lenders have been reviewing their portfolios for credit degradation. Credit agreements will often contain a clause in...more
The FDIC Fall 2019 edition of Supervisory Insights contained an article entitled “Leveraged Lending: Evolution, Growth and Heightened Risk”. In the article, the FDIC noted that the credit agreement terms have continued to...more
LSTA publishes model provisions for use in US law-governed credit agreements to assist in adopting new EU bail-in rules. European Economic Area (EEA) financial institutions are now subject to a new set of regulatory...more