Thanks to Bob and Credit Slips for the warm welcome. In April, after two long years, we completed the American Bankruptcy Institute Ethics Task Force's Final Report . This week we will be guest blogging about “bankruptcy ethics” and discussing many ... Read full article
Credit Slips is very pleased that Professor Lois Lupica and Dean Nancy Rapoport will be joining us for a few days. Both of these names are probably already well known to many of our readers. Lois is the Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the ... Read full article
So, I just discovered that the Credit Slips feed to Facebook has been inactive for two months. I think I have fixed it. As the one with all the virtual keys to the machines, my experience when looking at the web site is not always the same as everyone ... Read full article
Bankruptcy lawyers and judges often toil away in the lower reaches of the federal judicial over not-so-momentous issues such as the value of a refrigerator. When bankruptcy issues get to the Supreme Court, we tend to get excited. Boy, did that balloon get ... Read full article
Some thoughts on the recent prepack of an Eastern European vodka maker that passed through Delaware, over at Dealb%k . ... Read full article
For a while, the battle over whether to split the JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman positions looked like the corporate governance battle of the year, but seems to have ended with a whimper, rather than a bang. The media coverage of the issue, however, ... Read full article
For all the hopers, dreamers, and scaredy-cats out there--Relax. The long-awaited IMF overview paper on sovereign debt restructuring is here, the first since 2005. ... Read full article
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court denied cert in a case called Law Debenture Trust Co. v. Charter Communications, Inc. (No. 12-847) . The issue was whether the Second Circuit had correctly applied the doctrine of equitable mootness to an appeal in the ... Read full article
On October 11 & 12, the University of Illinois College of Law will host the 12th annual Midwestern Law & Economics Association conference. The event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of ... Read full article
So Felix Salmon has taken a justifiable swipe at some oddish Bloomberg articles on Citibank's spinoff of its internal hedge fund, as required by the Volcker Rule . ... Read full article
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On May 1, President Obama nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the conservator for the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ... Read full article
Any time The Daily Show has a piece that mentions both MERS and the OCC, it gets a link on Credit Slips . There is even a short clip featuring former Credit Slips blogger and current U.S. Senator (in that order) Elizabeth Warren. ... Read full article
with Mel Watt, according to an AP story today. Congressman Watt of North Carolina was a moving force behind Miller-Watt-Frank, the mortgage reform legislation that eventually found its way into Dodd-Frank financial reform. Given that our ... Read full article
Just two sunny weekend days after NML et al. filed their rejection of Argentina's offer, a new batch of defaulted bond holders have come to ask the court for their piece of Argentina's pari passu distribution . ... Read full article
The New York Times has a major article about the Qualified Residential Mortgage rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank Act. I think there's a lot of confusion about this ruling-making. I'm going to try and clarify a few things in this post. What Is ... Read full article
