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For those with capital to spend, low commodity prices and market unrest has created opportunities to acquire assets and distressed companies, including acquisitions of asset packages, acquisitions of companies...

This Emerging Issues video is the third in a series about risk management in the current economic environment.

The FDIC and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("FRB") finished evaluating the 2015 resolution plans of sixteen domestic banks, and separately issued guidance to four foreign banks.

The American Bankruptcy Institute recently released its Chapter 11 Reform Report. The Reform Report proposed a number of revisions to Chapter 11 related to confirmation, valuation, financing and asset sales, among others.

FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg described progress in the resolution-planning process for systemically important financial institutions ("SIFIs").

The FDIC adopted a final rule that will rescind regulations concerning the fiduciary powers of state savings associations and amend regulations regarding consent requirements for the exercise...

A CFTC-proposed supplement to an existing proposal to amend the regulations governing commodity broker bankruptcies was published in the Federal Register.

The FDIC adopted a final rule concerning the regulatory capital and liquidity treatment of certain financial contracts.

An FDIC request for feedback on improving an agency rule that mandates certain insured depository institutions ("IDIs") to submit resolution plans (the "Plan Rule")

Financial Regulatory Developments Focus.

Resolution plans are required by the Dodd-Frank Wall-Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for the largest financial institutions.

The latest Polsinelli-TrBK Distress Indices Report shows mixed distress trends across major sectors, with a sharp increase in health care distress, a rise in Chapter 11 filings and steady distress levels in real estate.

In the context of the insolvencies of banks and their holding companies, one highly litigated issue has been the ownership of tax refunds that result from losses suffered by the bank.

The Uniform Assignment for Benefit of Creditors (ABC) Act aims to modernize and standardize a debtor-initiated, state-law liquidation mechanism where financially distressed debtors...

Recently in the Abengoa SA bankruptcy proceeding, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware entered an order permitting Debtors to reject certain nonresidential real property leases.

Partner Seth H. Lieberman will be a speaker on a panel at the 2020 American Bankruptcy Institute Annual Spring Meeting at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C.

As the authors of ABI Preference Handbook, Third Edition note, "Any company extending unsecured trade credit to its customers is likely, at some point in its business life, to face...