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On June 25, 2020, five federal financial regulatory agencies published the long awaited Final Revisions to the Volcker Rule (the “Final Revisions”) which revise certain aspects of the Volcker Rule (Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act) with respect to the identification and treatment of covered funds.  The Final Revisions follow three years of…

On May 12, 2020, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced the issuance of updated Terms and Conditions and a Frequently Asked Questions document (the “FAQs”) regarding the 2020 Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (“TALF 2020”). In this Legal Update, we discuss several aspects of the updated TALF 2020 documents with particular relevance to…

On April 9, 2020, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced revised preliminary terms for the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (“TALF 2020”). Certain CLO securities that are rated AAA by at least two rating agencies and are not rated below AAA by any other rating agency will be eligible collateral for loans under this program. In…

As discussed in a previous post, Section 4003 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, authorizes $500 billion of liquidity to support businesses, states and municipalities “related to losses incurred as a result of coronavirus.”  It can be expected that a portion of the liquidity authorized by Section 4003…

In a development with potential relevance for leveraged borrowers and, by extension, the CLO market, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, was signed into law by President Trump on March 27, 2020. The CARES Act provides for liquidity support for both large and mid-size businesses that, unlike the Primary…

In this fall edition of our Structured Finance Bulletin, we discuss structuring and legal considerations for multi-jurisdiction trade receivables financing transactions as well as the latest innovations in CLO structures.

We also revisit the European Union securitization regulations and the application in the United Kingdom of the European Union securitization regulations following Brexit and describe the benefits of structuring lending arrangements as repurchase facilities.

Finally, we take a deep dive into the CFPB’s recent proposed debt collection rulemaking and discuss the Japanese risk retention rules and the SEC’s concept release regarding several exemptions from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.Continue Reading Structured finance bulletin – Fall 2019

Transactions in the collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”) market have generally included some form of LIBOR replacement provisions for over a year, stemming from the announcement in July 2017 by Andrew Bailey, the head of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), that the FCA intended to phase out LIBOR in its present form by the end…

Mayer Brown Partners Ryan Suda and Sagi Tamir will speak at the 8th Annual Investors’ Conference on CLOs and Leveraged Loans being held on May 20-21, 2019 in New York City. This conference explores important industry and regulation updates, key trends, opportunities and challenging headlines facing the leveraged loans market.

Ryan Suda will moderate the panel on “The Innovation Game: Alternative CLO Structures” and Sagi Tamir will participate on the “Assessing the Landscape: Europe and the U.S.” panel on May 21.Continue Reading Mayer Brown partners speaking at IMN’s investors’ conference on CLOs and leveraged loans

On March 15, 2019, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (the “JFSA”) published the final version of its amendment to the regulatory capital requirements relating to investments by certain types of Japanese financial institutions, including Japanese banks and bank holding companies, in securitizations. The amendment, which takes effect on March 31, 2019, adds to such regulatory capital requirements (i) a set of due diligence and information collection requirements for investments by covered Japanese financial institutions in securitizations and (ii) a risk retention rule for such investments. To provide guidance regarding these new regulatory requirements, the JFSA published, together with the final version of the amendment, a series of responses to selected comments that it received with respect to its initial proposal of these regulatory changes as well as a series of answers to frequently asked questions concerning the application of these regulatory changes. This Legal Update focuses on the risk retention rule portion of the amendment.
Continue Reading Legal Update: New Japanese risk retention rule takes effect on March 31, 2019