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Developments in cross-border insolvency: The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-border Insolvency and current issues

By Jenny Clift, UNCITRAL Secretariat, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations

Recognising that disparities between the national laws governing international trade can potentially create obstacles to cross-border flows of goods and investment, in 1966 the General Assembly established the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to serve as the vehicle by which the United Nations could play a more active role in reducing or removing those obstacles through modernisation and harmonisation of law.

Bond offerings and liability management exercises by sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers

by Reuven Young and Radoslaw Michalak, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Recent years have seen increased activity in the capital markets space by sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers, including a number of “green bond” issuances and refinancings of outstanding debt. With this trend expected to continue, it is timely to analyse the options available to government issuers planning to issue debt in the international capital markets or engage in liability management exercises.

Ireland – The nexus of the global aircraft leasing industry

By Trevor Buckley, Acumen Aviation

The foundation of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) in the 1970s by Aer Lingus and the Guinness Peat Group, laid the foundations for Ireland to become a key early player in the global aircraft leasing industry.

A selective history of Dutch residential mortgage lending

By Merijn Bosman and Jasper Koops, Dynamic Credit Partners Europe B.V.

The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana once observed that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In this article several turning points in the history of residential mortgage lending in the Netherlands are discussed. In chronological order this article will discuss the prevalence of peer-to-peer lending in the pre-1850 era, the rise of specialised mortgage banks in the 1860 to 1950 period, the dominance of financial-services conglomerates in the 1960-2013 period and the rise of non-bank lenders in the post-2013 period.

RMBS: Master loan purchase agreements

By John Levonick, Pepper Hamilton, LLP

The contract that dictates the terms of a mortgage loan purchase between a mortgage loan lender or Seller and a mortgage loan Purchaser is the Master Loan Purchase Agreement or Master Loan Purchase and Sale Agreement (“MLPA” or “MLPSA”).

Bankruptcy trends in the US: Filings decline for the seventh year

By Samuel J. Gerdano and Ed Flynn, American Bankruptcy Institute

The bankruptcy laws in the United States are designed to provide a fresh start to debtors and to give fair treatment to creditors. Many prominent corporations have filed in recent years, and about one out of eight adults in America has filed a personal bankruptcy case. In this article, Samuel Gerdano and Ed Flynn of the American Bankruptcy Institute present a brief overview of recent bankruptcy developments in the US.