Banking - United States archive

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Deal analysis

• The deal that tests efficacy of US PPPs

  16 April 2013

  An availability-based toll road project in the US reveals that municipal bond investors are willing to accept increasing risks in public-private partnerships

• US private placement market opens to Latam projects

  08 November 2012

  A first-of-its-kind private placement has linked US institutional investors with Brazil’s project market – and revealed them to be a perfect a match

• ResCap’s complex Dip financing

  21 May 2012

  One of the most intriguing aspects of Residential Capital’s Chapter 11 reorganisation could be its Dip financing package

• Puerto Rico sets P3 example for US

  30 November 2011

  The first transaction under Puerto Rico’s public-private-partnership authority (PRPPPA) has set some valuable lessons for budding P3 programmes throughout the US

• Regulatory reform pushes UK corporate sukuk

  06 September 2010

  Following amendments to UK laws on alternative bonds, Millennium PE has used a musharaka structure to buy into the UK’s debut corporate sukuk

News analysis

• Regulators must choose where Tarp goes next

  01 May 2009

• Freescale: novel bond restructuring litigation

  01 May 2009

• Legal uncertainty means Talf is not working

  01 May 2009

• Protect me from the market

  01 May 2009

  Rights offerings have never been popular in the US. But now that they are the only option for some, both sides are arguing over legal protections should deals go wrong

• The real reason for blocked Pipes

  01 May 2009

  Private investment in public equity is popular in the US and Asia, but not in Europe. The reasons often given for this do not hold up. It’s largely a question of culture

• Toxic tactics compared

  01 May 2009

  P-Pip's pricing of toxic assets provides an innovative solution to a problem preoccupying governments around the world, but first they need to know if it works