Los efectos de la pandemia se están materializando en un incremento significativo de la deuda de consumidores y empresas. En este contexto, nuestra previsión es que, en los próximos años, las transacciones sobre deuda y activos tóxicos alcanzarán niveles muy elevados. Desde Garrigues, analizamos en este documento la situación y tendencias del mercado de deuda en Latinoamérica, España y Portugal, donde se percibe una clara tendencia a la sofisticación de este tipo de operaciones.

Pandemia COVID-19

In the wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in debt held by both consumers and companies. Over the coming years, we expect to see a large number of debt and distressed asset deals. In this viewpoint, Garrigues provides in this documentan analysis of the debt market situation and trends in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, where there is a clear move toward greater sophistication in these deals.

COVID-19 pandemic

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On January 17, 2017, in a long-awaited decision in Marblegate Asset Management, LLC v. Education Management Finance Corp.,1 the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that Section 316 of the Trust Indenture Act ("TIA") does not prohibit an out of court restructuring of corporate bonds so long as an indenture's core payment terms are left intact.

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that a lender’s security interest in accounts was not perfected because a reference to “proceeds” in the lender’s UCC financing statement did not expressly refer to “accounts.” The Sixth Circuit surprisingly interpreted the definition of “proceeds”1 in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code to exclude “accounts”2 (despite and without reference to provisions of UCC Article 9 to the contrary).