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A federal judge in Dallas has dismissed a shareholder derivative suit against Southwest Airlines' board, providing the first meaningful judicial test of Texas Senate Bill 29 (SB 29) and offering...

One of the most controversial proposals for regulating the derivatives market may have come to an end with yesterday’s announcement by New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Eric Dinallo that his department would delay indefinitely its plan to regulate covered credit default swaps ("CDS").

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will allow all issuers to confidentially submit draft registration statements with the SEC in connection with their initial public offerings (IPOs).

Ending months of suspense, on February 11, 2011, the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a report to Congress unveiling the Obama Administration’s plans for the two giant, government-sponsored secondary mortgage market entities (the "GSEs"), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and for the future of the U.S. housing finance system generally (the "Proposal").

In Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., 994 F.3d 1341 (11th. Cir. 2021), the Eleventh Circuit held that a debt collector's communication of a consumer's personal...

Four bills designed to help entrepreneurs raise capital are pending before Congress.

The trade group representing debt collection agencies, creditors, debt buyers, collection attorneys, and debt collection industry service providers has filed suit...

Although the dispute between hedge fund manager David Einhorn and Apple, Inc. is about Apple’s capital allocation strategy, it has brought attention to the SEC rules on "unbundling" of proxy statement proposals.

This year has proven to be an interesting one for the covered bond market, and we anticipate that 2013 will bring many important new developments.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an advisory opinion on complying with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Regulation F in the collection of medical debt...

Collateralized fund obligations emerged in the early 2000s as a means of applying securitiza-tion techniques developed for collateralized debt obligations to portfolios of hedge fund and private equity fund investments.

In Paul v. Enhanced Recovery Company, the plaintiff received two letters from a debt collector concerning the same debt, about 40 days apart.

Welcome to Distressed Debt Legal Insights, Ropes & Gray's new source of timely insights for professionals navigating the complex world of liability management and special situations finance.

On June 30, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and National Credit Union Administration (the agencies)...

Six years after Serta Simmons Bedding (“SSB”) executed its famous, non-ratable uptier liability management transaction, Judge Christopher Lopez of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas...

On February 12, the CFTC and the European Commission announced jointly that the two agencies have made significant progress in their collaboration.

On April 11, 2022, the White House announced plans in line with a recent government focus on medical debt and credit reporting that could impact medical providers...

This is not about top-shelf liquor, it is about today’s notice of proposed rulemaking…. At an open meeting today, the Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") approved a proposed rule implementing a liquidity coverage ratio ("LCR") requirement (the "Proposed Rule"), written jointly with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC," and collectively, with the FRB and the OCC, the "Agencies").