The making of European cov-lite James Chesterman, Sam Hamilton and Jane Summers of Latham & Watkins look at the sponsor-friendly terms and structuring issues emerging as US style covenant-lite takes hold in the European leveraged finance market
Building a European capital market The European Commission’s Jonathan Faull has been the driving force behind its Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative. Here he discusses the CMU, how to fix securitisation and why regulatory silos aren’t a European problem
Hopes still high for private placement growth The ICMA’s Katie Kelly discusses the industry body’s efforts to develop the funding tool and her hopes of a European regulatory response
LSTA: how the risk retention solution was found US rulemakers have been on a collision course with the loan industry over risk retention rules. The LSTA’s Elliot Ganz explains how a solution was found
