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Preserving a Fundamental Bankruptcy Tool: Despite uncertainty, credit bidding continues to serve lenders and investors well in distressed industries

Credit bidding allows secured creditors to protect their collateral in a bankruptcy sale and can provide an opportunity to strategically acquire a company’s assets. It is a valuable tool for all secured lenders but especially for private equity firms, hedge funds and other distressed debt...

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DOJ Takes Aim at Individuals: A quest to uncover violations of criminal law that purportedly occurred during the 2007-2008 financial crisis

Notwithstanding the recent series of record-breaking settlements between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and many of the world’s largest financial institutions[1], the DOJ has now set its sights on investigating individuals – pursuant to a civil statute – in a quest to uncover...

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Through the Financial Regulation Looking Glass: Avoiding missteps, real or imagined, is no easy task when every move is hawked by a dizzying array of agencies

Financial institutions face tremendous scrutiny from the whole host of regulatory bodies that claim some authority over their services and operations. Jayant W. Tambe, co-head of Jones Day’s Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation practice, and C. Hunter Wiggins, a former Principal...

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