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New York State minimum wage increases and New York City’s paid sick days requirements

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

Two recently passed laws will soon impact New York State and New York City employers. The first law involves an increase in New York State's minimum

Ninth Circuit allows bankruptcy courts to recharacterize loans as equity, applying state law

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The Ninth Circuit held on April 30, 2013 that a bankruptcy court "has the authority to determine whether a transaction creates a debt or an equity

UK Supreme Court issues authoritative decision on 'balance sheet insolvency test'

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 9 2013

The UK Supreme Court today delivered an important decision on the meaning of the so-called 'balance sheet insolvency test' in s.123(2) of the

First distribution expected in Dutch bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Treasury Co. B.V. (“LBT”)

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • Netherlands
  • -
  • April 3 2013

Following a consent solicitation process (unprecedented in the Netherlands) which ended on 25 January 2013, the LBT Composition Plan, as proposed by

Delaware bankruptcy court upholds make-whole claim equal to 37 percent of loan principal

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

A lender's right to recover a make-whole premium as part of its allowed claim in a bankruptcy case has been the subject of several recent court

New European rules on short selling effective 1 November 2012

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • October 6 2012

The EU Regulation No 2362012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps (the “Regulation”) and the subsidiary legislation made under it take effect in all 27 countries of the EU on 1 November 2012 and will replace all existing rules on short selling activities in EU countries

US private fund advisers likely to have another year to comply with the AIFM Directive for marketing in the UK

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

HM Treasury, which is the legislative body responsible for implementing the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFM Directive”) into

FSA conflicts of interest safeguards: immediate action to be taken by all UK-authorised hedge fund managers

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 27 2012

The UK Financial Services Authority has recently published an important report that builds upon a series of late 2011 and early 2012 “thematic reviews” of FSA-authorised investment managers (the “Report”

Primer on CFTC Form 40 and related reporting and recordkeeping requirements

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2008

In view of the apparent increase in the number of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Form 40 requests received by our fund clients lately, we thought it would be helpful to briefly outline the circumstances that result in the receipt of a Form 40 request, as well as the CFTC reporting and recordkeeping requirements for Form 40

SEC focuses on broker-dealer registration issues facing private fund managers

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently has made broker-dealer registration an area of focus for private fund managers. On March 8, 2013, the