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Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Fannie Mae Updates Multifamily Loan Documents

Fannie Mae recently announced updates to its Multifamily Loan Documents with Lender Letter (25-04). Since that time, Fannie Mae released a revised Lender Letter (25-04R) that changed the mandatory date for use of the loan...more

Hogan Lovells

English High Court decides that a letter of comfort creates legal relations

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A version of this article first appeared in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in June 2025. In the case of IDBI Bank Limited v Axcel Sunshine Limited & Ors the English High Court held that,...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Enemy of a Lender: Ambiguity in Loan Documents

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Loan document terms are ambiguous when they are reasonably capable of being interpreted in more than one manner. Contract law often provides that an ambiguous term in a loan document is interpreted against the drafting party....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

Sullivan & Worcester

Sullivan works with ITFA on Launch of Short Term SWIFT FI Trade Loan Template

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London, UK – Geoffrey Wynne, partner and head of Sullivan's Trade & Export Finance Group, worked with an ITFA working group headed by Paul Coles, chair of its Market Practice Committee, to develop a Short Term SWIFT Financial...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

High Court of England and Wales Decision Clarifies “Lender Discretion”

Borrowers and lenders negotiating commercial loan agreements should use precise contractual language to avoid having terms implied into their agreements. In MacDonald Hotels Limited & Anr v Bank of Scotland Plc [2025] EWHC 32...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Navigating the Grey Area, March 2025 - Navigating the Grey Area: Financial Covenant Amendments and the Doctrine of Purview

The doctrine of purview under English law plays a critical role in determining whether amendments to a secured facility require reaffirmation or re-execution of guarantees and security. However, when it comes to adjustments...more

A&O Shearman

Good faith in secured finance?

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The court implied a good faith term constraining a lender’s discretion to refuse a borrower's request to dispose of assets in a secured financing context. A power to consider requests for disposals - A facility agreement...more

Goodwin

FAQs About US Bank Failure

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Deposit Insurance - Are the deposits at my bank FDIC-insured? Deposits held at FDIC-insured depository institutions are insured up to $250,000 per depositor for deposits held in the same “right and capacity.”...more

Emmet, Marvin & Martin LLP

COVID-19 AND THE LAW: MAC/MAE Clauses in New York Credit Agreements

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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

L'Efficacia della clausola floor nei contratti di finanziamento

“Nel contratto di mutuo non è giuridicamente configurabile un tasso di interesse negativo che incida sul capitale mutuato. Conseguentemente, quando il tasso d’interesse sia stato pattuito in misura variabile, esso non può...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New lending opportunities for EU Alternative Investment Funds in Italy

On 23 December 2016, the Bank of Italy supplemented the regulation on the collective investment management (the "Regulation") which, inter alia, implements article 46-ter of Legislative Decree. n. 58/1998 ("Consolidated...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

US Loan Market Adapts to European Bail-In Directive

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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

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