More Banking Articles

Banking | Financial Institutions | Finance

Leading Offshore Firm: The Inside View on the Cayman Islands Jurisdiction

Editor: Please describe the current environment for Cayman Islands investment fund structures. Isbister: The current environment for Cayman Islands investment fund structures is the best it has been since the end of the global financial crisis. We are seeing a number of new quality start-up...

Read More

Banking | Finance

Market Trends in Middle-Market Leveraged Financing Transactions

MCC: Please give us a 2014 market recap for middle-market leveraged finance transactions. Hong: 2014 continued to be a year that generally favored borrowers and private equity sponsors, and terms in the loan transactions became increasingly more borrower and sponsor friendly. Many elements...

Read More

Banking | Finance

Some Free Advice: Is a MAC Clause the Answer?

The perennial question of whether to use a MAC clause in transaction agreements constitutes, at its heart, a problem of how to allocate a potential risk that could kill the project before it is even consummated. And each time this question arises, you go over the main risks and benefits of the...

Read More