The FDIC has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing rules for the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act provisions providing that the FDIC may, as a receiver, “resolve” (i.e., liquidate) covered financial companies.

A number of activities of potential significance have occurred in the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act:

Surplus Lines Regulation:

For some years, companies in the United Kingdom have utilized a statutory process called solvent schemes of arrangement. These schemes amount to what in the United States is called a “cram down” voluntary reorganization of financially distressed, but solvent, debtors. They impose upon creditors reductions in the amount owed to them outside the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Rhode Island adopted a similar statutory scheme, which became effective in 2004.