Latest Credit markets Podcast Episodes
Muslim Cemetery Battles for Justice in Virginia — “So Lose Not Heart Nor Despair”
Law, Policy & Markets - December 14, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutesA charity encounters surprising roadblocks to building a new cemetery for low-cost Muslim burials in Stafford County, Virginia. In this episode, host Allan Marks follows the cemetery’s path to justice with the lawyers who handled the civil rights case, Tawfiq Rangwala and Melanie Westover Yanez,...
Energy Transition in Asia-Pacific: “It’s Gettin’ Hot In Here”
Law, Policy & Markets - October 29, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutesESG Series #7: Are climate goals and economic development on a collision course? As COP26 gets underway in Glasgow, the energy transition is top of mind. Shifting energy production away from coal, oil and natural gas toward greener energy sources like wind and solar power and renewable fuels ...
Energy Transition in Asia-Pacific: “It’s Gettin’ Hot In Here”
Law, Policy & Markets - October 29, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutesESG Series #7: Are climate goals and economic development on a collision course? As COP26 gets underway in Glasgow, the energy transition is top of mind. Shifting energy production away from coal, oil and natural gas toward greener energy sources like wind and solar power and renewable fuels ...
The $1 Trillion CLO Market – “It’s Just You and the Pool"
Law, Policy & Markets - September 23, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutesThe market for collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs") has had a record year, with over $1 trillion in new issuances, refinancings and resets globally so far. Debt and equity investors are clamoring for more. What’s fueling the boom in securitizations and leveraged loans, and what’s on the hori...
West Coast Reads – "What's on Your Bookshelf?"
Law, Policy & Markets - August 28, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutesWorking remotely creates challenges to the creativity, cohesiveness and culture of any professional firm. How do you get to know each other and foster community when you’re stuck on video calls all day and you’ve lost the spontaneity of seeing people in the office? For some of the lawyers in Mil...
Pro Bono in Service of Immigrants – “Welcoming the Stranger”
Law, Policy & Markets - July 29, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutesImmigration is a complicated and controversial issue. Well over 50,000 unaccompanied children seek entry to the United States at our southern border each year. Who are they? And why are they so desperate to flee their home countries that they leave everything and everyone they know behind? What ...
Pro Bono in Service of Immigrants – “Welcoming the Stranger”
Law, Policy & Markets - July 29, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutesImmigration is a complicated and controversial issue. Well over 50,000 unaccompanied children seek entry to the United States at our southern border each year. Who are they? And why are they so desperate to flee their home countries that they leave everything and everyone they know behind? What ...
Asian Capital Markets at an Inflection Point – “Opportunities & Risks Ahead”
Law, Policy & Markets - July 07, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutesAsia’s financial markets – flush with liquidity and riding a wave of economic growth – are at an inflection point. Corporate issuers, investment banks, hedge funds and private investors have evolved over the past two decades, just as capital sources and economies have become more diverse. A burg...
Biopharmaceutical Innovation: “Unleashing the Body’s Immune System, from mRNA Vaccines to Cancer Cures”
Law, Policy & Markets - June 18, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutesBiopharma is on a roll. Biologics and recombinant antibodies have advanced the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Messenger RNA technology – an essential part of the newly developed Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines – promises a new frontier of medical breakthroughs and future adva...
Regenerative Development to Mitigate Climate Change – “Common Earth’s Path to Sustainability"
Law, Policy & Markets - May 26, 2021 16:00 - 47 minutesESG Series #6: Regenerative development enhances sustainability and resilience through a sophisticated understanding of how all living systems are interconnected. Linking diverse people and places through international scientific alliances and hands-on local projects (like regenerative finance, ...
SPACs Fuel Hot M&A and IPO Markets – “Will SEC Cool the Fire?”
Law, Policy & Markets - April 29, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutesSPACs, or “blank check” Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, have surged over the past two years, raising over $75 billion (about half the total US IPO market) last year alone. Recent SEC statements add complexity to accounting and disclosure rules for SPACs and could chill the market. Even s...
Battery Metals Charge the Green Energy Transition: “I’ve Got My Ion You”
Law, Policy & Markets - April 15, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutesESG Series #5: As the world transitions from fossil fuels to renewable power and other clean energy technologies, we are entering a “super cycle” of demand for new materials. The digitalization of the global economy also drives this demand, as power grids become smarter, sustainable and more res...
Europe’s Equity Boom and the First German IPO of 2021: “Wir Kaufen Dein Auto1”
Law, Policy & Markets - March 31, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutesEuropean companies are benefitting from investors’ huge appetite for new equity offerings. Showing the strength of European capital markets in 2021, Germany's first IPO of the year closed in February: AUTO1 Group SE, a multi-brand technology company that develops solutions for online car buying ...
Brazil’s Hot IPO Market: “Que legal!”
Law, Policy & Markets - March 10, 2021 01:00 - 30 minutesBrazil’s capital markets are surging, with new IPOs and follow-on equity offerings in 2021 extending the hot market from last year, the best in over a decade. Brazil is a bellwether for emerging markets globally. What is causing this flurry of activity, and how long will it last? In this epis...
Milbank@Harvard – "A Decade of Connections, Community and Creativity"
Law, Policy & Markets - February 24, 2021 21:00 - 31 minutesStarting in their fourth year of practice, Milbank associates spend a week together on campus at Harvard Law School Executive Education each year for three years in an interactive, intensive and comprehensive professional development program. In the classroom, the curriculum, developed in partne...
Corporate Governance & Proxy Advisors – “Who Watches the Watchers?”
Law, Policy & Markets - January 28, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutesESG Series #4: Two proxy advisory firms wield vast power over America’s public companies, with little accountability or transparency. Institutional investors who control an estimated 80% of the market capital of U.S.-publicly listed companies often rely on these advisors in setting stewardship ...
SEC Enforcement Powers Expanded With New Disgorgement Law – “Unjust Enrichment Just Adjusted”
Law, Policy & Markets - January 14, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutesLast year, disgorgement accounted for $3.6 billion in monetary remedies for the US Securities and Exchange Commission, or three-quarters of all monetary remedies in SEC enforcement actions. Two recent Supreme Court decisions – in 2017 and 2020 – sharply curtailed the SEC’s authority to pursue d...
Musicians as Lawyers – “Practice Makes Perfect (Pitch)” | Special Holiday Episode
Law, Policy & Markets - December 18, 2020 17:00 - 37 minutesLike a fine musician performing a complex work before a discerning audience, practicing law at an elite level can be as much art as science. Today, we take a breather from complex business issues in this bonus episode featuring Milbank Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner Alla...
Renewable Energy Past and Future: The Lawyer’s Role – “Be the Change You Wish to See”
Law, Policy & Markets - December 07, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutesESG Series #3: Renewable energy technology and transactions have evolved globally since the early days of wind power in California. In this episode, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partners Karen Wong (who retires this year) and Allan Marks (host) look at how the practice...
Renewable Energy Past and Future: The Lawyer’s Role – “Be the Change You Wish to See”
Law, Policy & Markets - December 07, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutesESG Series #3: Renewable energy technology and transactions have evolved globally since the early days of wind power in California. In this episode, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partners Karen Wong (who retires this year) and Allan Marks (host) look at how the practice...
The Virtual Federal Trial of Putnam v. FGIC – “What’s in the Box?”
Law, Policy & Markets - October 21, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutesTop-flight lawyers conducted a three-week trial entirely online, in the midst of a pandemic and recession, to resolve issues that dated back over a decade to the last recession. Derivatives, CDOs, credit default swaps, and financial guaranties: the facts in Putnam vs. FGIC were incredibly comple...
The Virtual Federal Trial of Putnam v. FGIC: “What’s in the Box?”
Law, Policy & Markets - October 21, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutesTop-flight lawyers conducted a three-week trial entirely online, in the midst of a pandemic and recession, to resolve issues that dated back over a decade to the last recession. Derivatives, CDOs, credit default swaps, and financial guaranties: the facts in Putnam vs. FGIC were incredibly comple...
The Virtual Federal Trial of Putnam v. FGIC – “What’s in the Box?”
Law, Policy & Markets - October 21, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutesTop-flight lawyers conducted a three-week trial entirely online, in the midst of a pandemic and recession, to resolve issues that dated back over a decade to the last recession. Derivatives, CDOs, credit default swaps, and financial guaranties: the facts in Putnam vs. FGIC were incredibly comple...
Executive Compensation In Challenging Times: “What’s A Board To Do?”
Law, Policy & Markets - September 21, 2020 18:00 - 36 minutesExecutive compensation is a hot-button issue, correlated both to tremendous growth in financial wealth and to rising inequality. In this episode of Law, Policy & Markets, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner Allan Marks and Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits p...
Executive Compensation In Challenging Times – “What’s A Board To Do?”
Law, Policy & Markets - September 21, 2020 18:00 - 36 minutesESG Series #2: Executive compensation is a hot-button issue, correlated both to tremendous growth in financial wealth and to rising inequality. In this episode, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner Allan Marks and Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits partner Mik...
International Restructuring: Solving an Aircraft Finance Puzzle – “Flying is Easy; Landing is Hard”
Law, Policy & Markets - September 14, 2020 21:00 - 41 minutesHow do you pay for planes and cover billions in debt when people stop flying and airlines are going broke? The global pandemic and economic slowdown have radically altered the financial landscape for airlines, aircraft manufacturers and leasing companies around the world. Our story today is abou...
Fraud, Deception & Financial Crime - “Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!”
Law, Policy & Markets - August 26, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutesHow are companies, financial institutions and governments confronting increasingly sophisticated threats of fraud and other financial crimes? Milbank partner Allan Marks and Litigation & Arbitration partners Mona Vaswani and Adam Fee delve into a range of timely and substantive topics: Financia...
Fraud, Deception & Financial Crime – “Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!”
Law, Policy & Markets - August 26, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutesHow are companies, financial institutions and governments confronting increasingly sophisticated threats of fraud and other financial crimes? Milbank partner Allan Marks and Litigation & Arbitration partners Mona Vaswani and Adam Fee delve into a range of timely and substantive topics: Financia...
Fraud, Deception & Financial Crime – “Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!”
Law, Policy & Markets - August 26, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutesHow are companies, financial institutions and governments confronting increasingly sophisticated threats of fraud and other financial crimes? Milbank partner Allan Marks and Litigation & Arbitration partners Mona Vaswani and Adam Fee delve into a range of timely and substantive topics: Financia...
Cybersecurity In A Digital Age – “The Only Truly Secure System Is One That Is Powered Off”
Law, Policy & Markets - July 07, 2020 20:00 - 49 minutesESG Series #1: There are two perspectives from which to examine cybersecurity. Big picture: Are we safe as a nation? Up close: What should my company or institution be doing now to manage cyber risks? In this special, extended episode, Allan Marks joins Former NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell ...
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