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Mark Weidemaier & Mitu Gulati ... Read full article

Poland has been thumbing its nose at key European Union norms for some time now (refusal to comply with environmental commitments , unwillingness to take refugees , and so on). ... Read full article

Mitu Gulati and Mark Weidemaier ... Read full article

Key takeaways for Slips readers from a Moody's report, dated today: ... Read full article

I thought  Credit Slips readers might be interested in using some holiday down-time to catch up on a couple of recent comparative insolvency conferences with particularly cutting-edge presentations, some of which are or will be available for viewing ... Read full article

HT: Joseph Blocher & Rich Schmalbeck ... Read full article

For the spring semester, I am offering advanced commercial law and contracts seminar for UNC students, and have gathered resources to inspire students on paper topic selection as well as to guide what we otherwise will cover. But given the breadth of what ... Read full article

We have covered Crystallex’s lawsuit against Venezuela a bunch here on Credit Slips (for example, here , here , here ... Read full article

First, thanks to all of you who emailed and commented with possible answers as to what the Aurelius strategy in challenging the constitutionality of the Puerto Rican Control Board might be ( the subject of Part I ).  My favorite answer was the simple: ... Read full article

Classes are over, which means that I get to finally open some of the fun books that I've been meaning to read. Most of what I read is too low brow for me to have the courage to mention here. Plus, Mark tells me that the books in question have to have ... Read full article

While most of the sovereign debt world is focused on Mr. Maduro’s shenanigans in Venezuela, a fascinating litigation is playing out in federal district court in Puerto Rico.  Aurelius, a hedge fund known to many of us because of the role it played in the ... Read full article

Mitu Gulati and Mark Weidemaier ... Read full article

Venezuela is really really careening sideways into chaotic default. We know this not just because it has been missing payments and the ISDA Determinations Committee said so , but also because the government seems to be in a hurry to hand out what assets ... Read full article

The OLC's Legal Opinion on the CFPB succession is out. It's available here .  Three observations.  ... Read full article

We now have a CFPB succession crisis with a Director and a Pretender. The White House did a press briefing this morning to put out its case for why Mick Mulvaney is the rightful acting Director of the CFPB. I expected that the White House would argue that ... Read full article

I want to emphasize just how irregular and probably illegal the Trump administration's attempt to make OMB Direct Mick Mulvaney the acting Director of the CFPB really is.   ... Read full article

The Washington Post has an interesting piece about the huge volume of "SPAM" comments that the FCC received regarding the net neutrality rule. ... Read full article

I made a joke in the comments to Mitu’s post about whether the arrest of Citgo executives strengthened the argument for treating Citgo as Venezuela’s alter ego. The joke wasn’t very good; I called Venezuela a “typical activist shareholder.” But Mitu ... Read full article