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Two important developments have recently taken place in the U.S. legislature. The first relates to a proposed exemption from the internal control rules under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the second relates to shareholder voting on executive compensation.

On August 29, 2023, the U.S. federal banking regulators issued a proposal that would establish a long-term debt (LTD) requirement for large U.S. banking organizations with $100 billion or more in total assets.

Interest rates can have a significant impact on the value of a business, particularly in cases where debt is involved in the purchasing process.

The law that temporarily increased the maximum amount of debt a company may have to qualify as a small business under Subchapter V – the cheaper, easier, ...

Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 ("SBRA") to make Chapter 11 reorganization easier for small businesses.

In Shepherd v. Debt Recovery Sols. of Ohio, Inc., No. 3:20-cv-520 (N.D. Ohio Apr. 22, 2021), the court dismissed a putative class action alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collections Practices...

Recent legislative activity in the United States and European Union has targeted third-party litigation funding ("TPLF"). In the United States, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act initially included a proposal to increase taxes...

Mound Cotton won summary judgment in favor of its client, Miller & Malone, P.C., in an action alleging violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

In this edition of Valuation Insights we discuss retention incentives that are expected to become more mainstream under the new Trump Administration.

This caucus provides support for the federal tax-exemption for municipal bonds by directly opposing the President's cap of tax-exemption at the 28 percent bracket.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a press release "that the defendants and their agents threatened consumers with arrest and imprisonment and tried to collect debts that consumers did not actually owe."

Guy Lander, Carter Ledyard's Chair of Securities and Co-Chair of Cross-Border Practices, has just issued the latest edition of U.S. Securities Law for International Financial Transactions...

While a full understanding of the economic effects of the COVID-19 virus is likely many years in the future, one existing consequence of the widespread economic downturn is that many borrowers...

Even within the Second Circuit, the courts will now have to grapple with how to construe Madden and whether to extend the decision beyond the context addressed by the Second Circuit—the sale of defaulted-debt.

On December 9, the CFPB entered into a consent order with a debt collection agency for alleged unlawful student loan debt collection practices against defaulted borrowers.

The CFPB highlighted findings from supervisory examinations completed in 2020.

On October 1, the CFPB issued an advisory opinion highlighting that debt collectors engaging in certain practices with respect to the collection of medical debts are strictly liable under the FDCPA and Regulation F.