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Winding Up - Playing pretend
Winding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Find out more about what we do for distressed here. Cast your mind back two years, just as inflation soared and interest rates began their ascent. Expectations were that we could be seeing the makings of a real default cycle, where restructurings would have to materially delever companies and lenders would have to stomach painful haircuts.
The Stress Release - June 2024
News and Analysis Freddie Doust +Will Macadam 18 June 2024•2 min read Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Stress Release, a new monthly series designed to distil each month's most pressing restructuring legal issues into an easily digestible format. Our aim with this series is to be informative but concise — each month we’ll cover a handful of hot-button topics based on our reporting at 9fin and conversations with market participants. Recently Published What are you waiting for?
Winding Up - Fed up?
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Winding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Find out more about what we do for distressed here. So, the Fed held interest rates… Why has the Fed gotten so hawkish on rate cuts? “The big thing that changed was the inflation forecast.
By Bianca Boorer Verified, Denitsa Stoyanova, Emmet Mc Nally, William Macadam Verified, Nathan R. Mitchell, Max Frumes
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9fin
The Stress Release - May 2024
News and Analysis Freddie Doust +Will Macadam 7 May 2024•1 min read Welcome to The Stress Release, a monthly series designed to distil each month's most pressing restructuring legal issues into an easily digestible format. Our aim with this series is to be informative but concise — each month we’ll cover a handful of hot-button topics from the previous month based on our reporting at 9fin and conversations with market participants. Recently Published What are you waiting for?
Lowell banks on a rebound refi - Q4 23 earnings review
News and Analysis Will Macadam 1 May 2024•5 min read The management team at Lowell GFKL said during an investor call on 30 April that the company would seek to refinance its debt this year, supported by its expedited ABS programme and the a “strong” business performance in 2023. Read all our public content for free Sign up for our newsletter to read this article now We won't spam. You can unsubscribe at any time. What are you waiting for?
The Stress Release - April 2024
Market Wrap Freddie Doust +Will Macadam 16 April 2024•1 min read Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Stress Release, a new monthly series designed to distil each month's most pressing restructuring legal issues into an easily digestible format. Our aim with this series is to be informative but concise — each month we’ll cover a handful of hot-button topics based on our reporting at 9fin and conversations with market participants. Recently Published What are you waiting for?
9Questions - Liz Osborne, Akin - the state of the market, fixing whitelists, drinking Pepsi Max
9Question Will Macadam +Freddie Doust 28 March 2024•7 min read There’s never been a better time to be an English restructuring lawyer. The UK Restructuring Plan, introduced four years ago in Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, is something of a blank canvas for practitioners — with new case law minted quarterly. But most importantly, London continues to be the go-to restructuring destination for foreign corporates in Europe and further afield.
Winding Up - When it rains it pours
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Market Wrap Chris Haffenden +Bianca Boorer + 5 more 28 March 2024•6 min read The working week may be one day poorer but there’s been plenty to keep 9fin’s European distressed team busy. Unsurprisingly, French situations have generated a healthy amount of coverage over the last four days. AlticeFrance’s Machiavellian ultimatum with lenders and its impressive value leakage capacity has strained our best credit and legal minds.
By Chris Haffenden, Bianca Boorer Verified, Denitsa Stoyanova, Emmet Mc Nally, William Macadam Verified, Nathan R. Mitchell, Max Frumes
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IMN Distressed Investing Forum wrap - jurisdictional due diligence, waving two years away, and McDermott
IMN’s Distressed Investing Forum 2024 wrapped up in London on Thursday, 29 February. Held deep within Allen & Overy’s conference bunker, panelists opined on the state of the European distress markets and non-performing loans on chairs upholstered A&O’s orange livery, while 9fin reporters thirstily guzzled the A2O water generously provided by our host.
McDermott International - Letters, bizarre twists, and equity offers
News and Analysis Will Macadam +Freddie Doust 28 February 2024•11 min read Mr Justice Green’s judgment sanctioning McDermott International’s UK Restructuring Plan, though “shorter and less detailed” than the judge would have liked, provides plenty of colour on the Texas-based energy services firm’s fraught negotiations with Colombian petroleum refinery Refineria de Cartagena (Reficar).
McDermott International - An end at last? Day 6
News and Analysis Will Macadam 15 February 2024•4 min read McDermott International’s six-day UK restructuring plan sanction hearing closed on Thursday, 15 February, with Mr Justice Michael Green in the English High Court reserving judgment. “I may, but I don’t give any promise to, notify the parties of the outcome [of the hearing] some point next week… or not,” the judge said.
The Stress Release - January 2024
Market Wrap Freddie Doust +Will Macadam 5 February 2024•1 min read Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Stress Release, a new monthly series designed to distil each month's most pressing restructuring legal issues into an easily digestible format. Our aim with this series is to be informative but concise — each month we’ll cover a handful of hot-button topics based on our reporting at 9fin and conversations with market participants. Recently Published What are you waiting for?
Distressed year in review 2023 - Legal
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9Questions - Tom Smith KC, South Square - Adler, Prezzo and Greece
Deep Dive Will Macadam 24 August 2023•9 min read 9Questions is our Q&A series featuring key decision-makers in leveraged finance and distressed debt — get in touch if you know who we should be talking to! For the latest installment of 9questions, 9fin spoke to Tom Smith KC,the Head of Chambers for South Square, a commercial law chambers in London.
Lambeth's Garden Museum hosts houseplant festival
The Garden Museum in Lambeth hosted a festival dedicated to all things houseplant last weekend. The Houseplant Festival 2021 brought together houseplant enthusiasts, influencers, sellers and horticultural historians all under one roof. Alice Vincent, a horticulture writer, founded the festival in 2019 to celebrate all things potted. The Festival events included a talk from author Catherine Horwood about the history of housebound flora, horticultural workshops and a plant swap for enthusiasts.
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