On April 25th, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, an advisory committee of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (ARRC), released recommended contractual fallback language for U.S. dollar LIBOR denominated floating rate notes and syndicated loans. This language is part of ARRC’s mandate to help resolve issues with contracts that reference LIBOR.  The ARRC recommends the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) as s replacement to LIBOR and has put in place a comprehensive plan of…

Mayer Brown Partners Ryan Suda and Sagi Tamir will speak at the 8th Annual Investors’ Conference on CLOs and Leveraged Loans being held on May 20-21, 2019 in New York City. This conference explores important industry and regulation updates, key trends, opportunities and challenging headlines facing the leveraged loans market. Ryan Suda will moderate the panel on “The Innovation Game: Alternative CLO Structures” and Sagi Tamir will participate on the “Assessing the Landscape: Europe and…

On Wednesday, April 10, Mayer Brown co-hosted with Fitch Ratings a “CLOs and Direct Lending in Chicago” seminar. This was the 7th consecutive annual iteration of this event with Fitch. An audience of over 120 attendees (and in excess of 200 registrants) heard from middle market participants and researchers. The agenda included a macroeconomic update by Fitch’s Chief Economist, a panel on the Growth and Appeal of Direct Lending as an Asset Class, a Regulatory…

Mayer Brown Partners Paul Jorissen and Lauren Pryor will speak at the 6th Annual Residential Mortgage Servicing Rights Forum being held April 15-16, 2019 in New York City. This conference explores the key industry issues, including the origination trends, views from the regulators, and more. Paul Jorissen will moderate the panel on “Financing in the MSR Market” and Lauren Pryor will moderate the panel on “Buying a Mortgage Servicer/Originator vs. Rights vs. Subservice” on April…

Montana may be, like New Mexico and possibly Colorado,[1] permitting utility tariff bonds related to certain electrical generating plant retirements. If enacted as proposed, the law would be called the “Montana Energy Impact Assistance Act.”…

Joining other coastal states (including Florida, Louisiana and Texas[1]), North Carolina (NC) is considering permitting utility tariff bonds for storm recovery. In both SB 559, filed in NC’s Senate on April 2, 2019, and in HB 624, filed in NC’s House on April 4, 2019, storm recovery costs (and related storm recovery reserves) would be permitted to be covered by a required “financing order,” and an applicant utility obtaining such a financing order…

On March 15, 2019, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (the “JFSA”) published the final version of its amendment to the regulatory capital requirements relating to investments by certain types of Japanese financial institutions, including Japanese banks and bank holding companies, in securitizations. The amendment, which takes effect on March 31, 2019, adds to such regulatory capital requirements (i) a set of due diligence and information collection requirements for investments by covered Japanese financial institutions in…