By: Rebecca G. DiStefano , GREENBERG TRAURIG, P.A. Overview The U.S. economy was spotlighted during an unprecedented national Presidential election in 2016 with campaign debate focused on the preservation and initiation of new jobs. This topic, of...

By: David L. Kornblau and Gerald W. Hodgkins Overview The enforcement and regulatory priorities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have begun to come into focus now that SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has been in office for nearly a year and...

By: David Azarkh and John O’Connell , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Overview: The High Yield Roller Coaster Continues The most appropriate word to describe the high yield market in 2016 is volatility. There were some rough patches when...

By: Anna Pinedo, Brian Hirshberg , and Raffi Garnighian, Mayer Brown LLP In connection with a registered securities offering, the underwriters of the offering typically enter into an underwriting agreement with the issuer of the securities and any selling...

By: Jordan Yaret , Mikhel Schecter , and Bryant Mendel , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HISTORICALLY LOW interest rates boosted U.S. structured finance issuance to $510 billion in 2017, a 37% increase over...