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Risk Retention: Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater Image

Risk Retention: Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater

David Galainena, Patrick Hardiman, Ronald Jacobson & Michael Mullins

There is significant, ongoing debate in Congress, as well as among the industry's regulators, as to the direction and scope of financial reform measures designed to address the problems that were perceived to be the cause of the current economic crisis. But the public outcry driving financial reform may unwittingly create risk retention levels in securitization transactions that will ultimately affect Main Street's credit costs, and severely limit access to credit.

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Movers & Shakers

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Who's going where; who's doing what.

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The Leasing Hotline

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

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Temporary Leasing and Temporary Licensing

Glenn A. Browne

Temporary tenants are no longer comprised solely of "mom and pop," new "start-up" businesses and similar tenants that could not afford the rents paid by "in-line" tenants, but rather may be composed of national tenants and sophisticated tenants very familiar with the leasing process.

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The Pros and Cons of SNDAs

Paul R. Diamond & David McClintick

Lawyers familiar with commercial leasing and lending transactions should be well-versed in the concepts of subordination, nondisturbance, and attornment. It is advantageous for both landlords and tenants to negotiate mutually satisfactory provisions in leases that address such concepts.

In the Spotlight: Eight Ways Tenants Can Rewrite a Landlord's Security Deposit Clause Image

In the Spotlight: Eight Ways Tenants Can Rewrite a Landlord's Security Deposit Clause

Mark Morfopoulos

There are at least eight revisions that a tenant can make to a landlord's "standard" security deposit clause that can protect its interests as well as the landlord's.

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How the Capital Markets and Current Drop in Property Values Can Work to a Tenant's Advantage Image

How the Capital Markets and Current Drop in Property Values Can Work to a Tenant's Advantage

John Kevill & Elizabeth Cooper

It is definitely a tenant's market, but tenants need to be aware of the "point of no return" for the landlord. They need to be acutely aware of how their tenancy will affect the value of a property and how to properly leverage their existing or contemplated occupancy.

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BAPCPA: Another Nail in the Coffin of Retail Reorganizations

Yitzhak Greenberg

BAPCPA has had a profound effect on retail reorganizations, particularly, the restriction on bankruptcy courts' broad discretion to extend debtors' time to assume or reject leases. This shortened time period, a maximum of 210 days, has been alleged to be responsible for the death of retail reorganizations.

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Seller, Beware

Ann Marie Uetz & Jennifer Hayes

Companies that continue to supply to a customer after the customer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection should take note of a recent decision from the Eleventh Circuit that required a supplier to return the money it was paid by a Chapter 11 debtor ' for goods shipped to the debtor post-petition ' because the debtor did not have authority to make the payment in the first place.

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The Challenge of Determining Enterprise Value in Volatile Markets

Steven B. Levine, Andrew Dash & Jennifer M. Recht

Arguments about value lie at the heart of many disputes in Chapter 11 cases. Yet, despite how critical it is to the outcome of these cases, bankruptcy courts often have extreme difficulty determining value. This makes valuation a fertile source of litigation.

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