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    Cross-border mergers: recent case law upholding freedom of establishment
    2018-03-07

    Introduction

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Corporate Finance/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Court of Appeal (England and Wales)
    Authors:
    Joanna Valentine , Simon Little
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
    Viewpoint: Who owns a distressed bank’s tax refunds?
    2013-07-30

    Over the next few years, a significant number of distressed bank-holding companies will face the end of interestdeferral periods and the prospect of payment defaults on certain debt instruments and trust-preferred securities. The looming obligations to repay deferred interest may escalate the need for financial restructuring at these holding companies and may create attractive opportunities for investors to recapitalize or acquire their subsidiary banks, including in a bankruptcy scenario.

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Bankruptcy, Security (finance), Holding company, Tax return (USA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA), United States bankruptcy court, Fifth Circuit
    Authors:
    Damian S. Schaible , Darren S. Klein , P. Alexandre de Richemont
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
    Swaps pushout rule: Federal Reserve clarifies treatment of U.S. branches of foreign banks
    2013-06-06

    The Federal Reserve has issued an interim final rule clarifying the treatment of uninsured U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks under Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act ("Swaps Pushout Rule"). The interim final rule clarifies that, for purposes of the Swaps Pushout Rule, all uninsured U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks are treated as insured depository institutions.

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Swap (finance), Depository institution, Credit default swap, Grandfather clause, Federal Reserve (USA), Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 (USA)
    Authors:
    Luigi L De Ghenghi , Susan C. Ervin , Randall D. Guynn , Annette L. Nazareth , Lanny A. Schwartz , Margaret E. Tahyar , Andrew S. Fei , E. Ashley Harris , Jai R. Massari , Gabriel D. Rosenberg
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
    Southern District of New York dismisses insider preference claims against affiliates of Goldman Sachs
    2013-04-15

    Firms offering comprehensive financial services scored a significant victory on April 9, 2013, when Judge Robert Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed Capmark Financial Group Inc.’s (“Capmark”) insider preference action against four lender affiliates of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“Goldman Sachs”), which arose out of Capmark’s 2009 bankruptcy.1 Davis Polk represented the Goldman Sachs lender affiliates and advanced the arguments adopted by Judge Sweet.

    Filed under:
    USA, New York, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Bankruptcy, Credit (finance), Debtor, Estoppel, Goldman Sachs, Ally Financial, United States bankruptcy court
    Authors:
    Benjamin S. Kaminetzky , Elliot Moskowitz , Neal A. Potischman , Jonathan D. Martin , Michael J. Russano , Donald S Bernstein , Damian S. Schaible , Timothy Graulich , Brian M. Resnick
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
    Strategic Growth Bancorp’s acquisition and recapitalization of mile high banks in a section 363 sale
    2013-02-13

    On December 31, 2012, Strategic Growth Bancorp Inc. (“Strategic Growth”), an El Paso, Texas-based bank holding company, acquired Mile High Banks (the “Bank”), a Colorado community bank, from the Bank’s parent, Big Sandy Holding Company (“Big Sandy”), through an auction process conducted pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. Davis Polk represented Strategic Growth and advised on the complex and overlapping bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, credit, tax and bank regulatory issues presented by the transaction.

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Bankruptcy, Credit (finance), Unsecured debt, Bank holding company, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA)
    Authors:
    Luigi L De Ghenghi , Kathleen L. Ferrell , Damian S. Schaible , William L. Taylor , Darren S. Klein , P. Alexandre de Richemont
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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