This is the final installment in our Subscription Finance Loan Agreement Series: a look at the documentary and other conditions that lenders will need to see completed before any utilisations under facilities can be made.
When a promissory note is lost, the obligation to repay a loan continues, and the lender may “re-establish” the note so long as it has not sold or transferred the note, writes our colleague Susan Vuernick.
Much of the thought in the LIBOR phase-out process has been on drafting contract terms that identify an agreed-upon replacement benchmark and then effecting the transition. One aspect that has received less attention is the necessary margin adjustment that should accompany a change in the benchmark.
This has been a sad week. Kobe and his daughter Gianna passing has hit me hard, like it has for most all of us. I’ve several times found myself in public with moist eyes simply from seeing the Facebook post with Kobe’s arm around Gianna at a Lakers game.
Funds in Europe are increasingly calling on their traditional subscription finance lenders for the purpose of providing credit lines to management and executives of the fund. In one form or another, these facilities have existed in the market for some time, but an increase in the size, number and lenders willing to make these facilities available is leading to an increased focus on their (often quite technical) requirements.
Global Legal Insights: Fund Finance 2020, commonly known as the "Pink Book," was published by Global Legal Group Ltd. (GLG) this week. This is the fourth edition of the guide, which includes 25 product-oriented chapters together with 19 jurisdictional updates. Many of the world’s preeminent fund finance law firms contributed chapters, and I am extremely appreciative of their continuing support of, and contributions to, the book.