Read time: 2 minutes 30 seconds On 8 May 2022, OFAC issued a determination (Determination) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14071 (issued on 8 April 2022), “Prohibitions Related to Certain Accounting, Trust and Corporate Formation, and Management Consulting Services,” prohibiting: “The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United … Continue Reading
Read time – 2 minutes 30 seconds Social finance, impact investing, blended finance…the endless industry jargon and terminology in this emerging asset class can be confusing. In this series, our industry leading global Social Impact Finance group looks to demystify the social finance market and its growing importance for financial institutions and investors. Greed is … Continue Reading
| Read time: 2 minutes | Following their loss at first instance in Titan Europe 2006-1 P.L.C. and others [2016] EWHC 969 (Ch) (the background to the case and our commentary can be found here), the Class X Noteholder appealed the decision in respect of the central issue in the proceedings – when calculating the … Continue Reading
The recent spate of litigation in CMBS transactions by noteholders to obtain interpretations of their rights directly in the English courts rather than through the note trustee raises two distinct questions: do investors have standing as a matter of both the transaction documents and general contract law to launch such proceedings and secondly should they … Continue Reading
It’s not been a good month for Class X Noteholders. Following the judgment in the Windermere VII case (see our commentary here) in which Snowden J found against the Class X Noteholder, the Chancellor of the High Court, Etherton J, in Titan Europe 2006-1 P.L.C. and others [2016] EWHC 969 (Ch) similarly rejected the arguments … Continue Reading
As outlined in our previous blog, X-tra, X-tra, Real All About It! published on Friday 8 April, Mr Justice Snowden handed down judgment of the High Court in the much anticipated Windermere VII Class X Notes dispute.… Continue Reading
Much has been written regarding the recent EU and US sanctions targeting the Russian capital markets, military and oil sectors (our own commentary can be found here) and the broad nature of the sanctions has, it would seem, produced some (probably) unintended consequences when applied to the mechanics of day to day capital markets operations. … Continue Reading
€32,000,000. A horror indeed for Colliers International UK (plc) (Colliers) as Mr Justice Blair awarded that amount to the issuer of the Titan Europe 2006-3 CMBS (Titan). The judgment was for the loss suffered by Titan in relation to the negligent valuation by Colliers of a property in Nuremberg originally occupied by the (now bankrupt) … Continue Reading
Another day, another CMBS transaction declares an insolvency related event of default (after the REC6 default), this time based on the ‘balance sheet’ event of default. The notice posted by the issuer clearly states that after the sale of property securing the Brisk loan, the issuer will not have sufficient assets to repay the Class D Notes … Continue Reading
They say that the early bird catches the worm and it seems that courts in the US definitely agree. A recent decision by a court of appeals in Philadelphia could serve as a wakeup call for any noteholders or issuers and servicers that might have claims to bring in relation to, respectively, the disclosure of … Continue Reading
Last week’s new Debussy DTC/Toys’R’Us CMBS transaction , which we were happily involved in, has sparked media attention as a sign of recovery of investors’ faith in the European securitisation markets. It also demonstrated investor demands to address some of the structural issues that had arisen in the original Vanwall securitisation as well as other … Continue Reading
So Eurosail-UK 2007-3BL plc (Eurosail) is not ‘balance sheet’ insolvent, no event of default has occurred under the RMBS notes it has issued and a post-enforcement call option (PECO) does not make limited recourse any of the notes it relates to. Those are the conclusions of the Supreme Court (see here) after it substantially re-affirmed … Continue Reading
As some of you may have seen, Fitch helpfully issued a press release last week clarifying its position on providing rating agency confirmations (RACs) during the replacement of special servicers on EMEA CMBS transactions. Rather unhelpfully, however, the release stated they would not be providing any such RACs in the future. This policy, of course, … Continue Reading
Following the boom years of securitisation origination and the well documented post-Lehman troubles securitisation transactions are now coming to the end of their life cycles as assets default, are re-financed or bought back by originators. However, there are typically numerous legal and accounting costs – and possibly taxes – associated with unwinding a securitisation such … Continue Reading
