What the Pros Say (Week of 4/9/17)

  • Brand/IP Value. Hilco Streambank's David Peress is quoted herein discussing loans structured upon brands. 
  • CDS. Given the comments about CDS by Jason Mudrick (see above) and the events emanating out of iHeartCommunications Inc., credit default swaps are coming back into focus. Here (part 1) and here (part 2), Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's Stephen Zide and colleagues provide a solid two-part summary of the CDS determination made in the iHeart matter.
  • Feasibility. In an attempt to overtake Jones Day as the winner of "Most Prolific Marketing" content supplier, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's Stephen Zide and David Braun provide a summary of the Paragon Offshore matter which, from our perspective, has been wildly under-covered - other than by us.

What the Pros Say (Week of 4/2/17)

  • Jevic/Structured Dismissals. So. Many. Summaries. We understand the awkwardness of claiming to be "curated" while simply listing a dozen different firm's summaries without, at a minimum, opining as to which ones were mailed in and which ones were extensive thoughtful analyses. But, c'mon, do YOU really want to read 12 different summaries of the same case? Well, right, neither do we. Enjoy. P.S. If your firm hasn't produced one yet well...you might as well not even bother at this point.
    • Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (Tyler Nurnberg, Michael Messersmith, Michael Bernstein) here.
    • Bracewell LLP (Kurt Mayr, Shannon Wolf) here.
    • Dechert LLP (Mysterious Legal summary bot) here.
  • Drinker Biddle (Steven Kortanek and Patrick Jackson) here.
  • Duane Morris (Rudolph Di Massa Jr., Christopher Winter) here.
  • Foley & Lardner LLP (Charles Tabb) here
  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (Adam Rogoff, Joseph Shifer, Alana Katz) here.
  • Jones Day (Bruce Bennett, Brad Erens, Dan Moss) here.
  • O'Melveny & Meyers LLP (Evan Jones, Peter Friedman, Daniel Shamah, George Davis, John Rapisardi, Suzzanne Uhland) here
  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP (Michael Lauter) here.
  • Vinson & Elkins LLP (William Wallander, David Meyer) here.
  • Winston & Strawn LLP (Everyone) here