Law, Policy & Markets

Send us Fan Mail Top-flight lawyers conducted a three-week trial entirely online, in the midst of a pandemic and recession, to resolve issues that dated back over a decade to the last recession. Derivatives, CDOs, credit default swaps, and financial guaranties: the facts in Putnam vs. FGIC were incredibly complex. In this episode, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner...

Send us Fan Mail ESG Series #2: Executive compensation is a hot-button issue, correlated both to tremendous growth in financial wealth and to rising inequality. In this episode, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner Allan Marks and Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits partner Mike Shah discuss current trends in executive compensation, including: How corporate b...

Send us Fan Mail How do you pay for planes and cover billions in debt when people stop flying and airlines are going broke? The global pandemic and economic slowdown have radically altered the financial landscape for airlines, aircraft manufacturers and leasing companies around the world. Our story today is about how Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) – a leading aircraft lessor worth over $8 billion –...

Send us Fan Mail How are companies, financial institutions and governments confronting increasingly sophisticated threats of fraud and other financial crimes? Milbank partner Allan Marks and Litigation & Arbitration partners Mona Vaswani and Adam Fee delve into a range of timely and substantive topics: Financial and accounting fraud, embezzlement, market manipulation, bank and wire fraud, mone...

Send us Fan Mail ESG Series #1: There are two perspectives from which to examine cybersecurity. Big picture: Are we safe as a nation? Up close: What should my company or institution be doing now to manage cyber risks? In this special, extended episode, Allan Marks joins Former NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell and Milbank partner Dara Panahy to explore in depth the needed tools and current trends...

Send us Fan Mail How are governments and financial markets in Latin America responding to the global pandemic and recession? Milbank partner Allan Marks discusses cross-border investment, asset valuations, and legal initiatives across Latin America with Milbank Capital Markets partners Fabiana Sakai in São Paulo and Carlos T. Albarracín in New York. As economies struggle in Brazil, Argentina, Mexi...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring Milbank partners Allan Marks and Drew Fine , one of the world's leading aircraft finance lawyers, this episode explores the future of the global aviation industry. How will airlines both keep passengers safe and make them feel safe? The financial implications for the airlines, airports, lessors, and manufacturers are complex and wide ranging.        About the speake...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring Milbank partners Allan Marks and Apostolos Gkoutzinis , this episode explores the pandemic’s impact on global capital markets, the efficacy of government responses, and some longer term implications of these changes. About the speakers: Focusing on US securities laws and international debt and equity offerings, Apostolos Gkoutzinis covers an exceptionally broad practice...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring Milbank partners Allan Marks and Fiona Schaeffer , this episode explores how the legal landscape of antitrust work is shifting and whether the pandemic-induced economic crisis impedes or encourages long term enforcement trends. About the speakers: Fiona Schaeffer represents clients in the defense of “bet-the-company” criminal and civil cases as well as their most complex...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Milbank partners Allan Marks and Erwin Dweck survey economic trends and financing opportunities for distressed real estate in different asset classes. Then, they take a deeper dive into current pricing, valuations and structuring implications for commercial real estate finance. Find out what it all may mean over the next 12 months for the CMBS market, which saw al...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring Milbank partners Allan Marks and Jacqueline Chan , this episode explores Asia’s reopening and the pandemic’s effects on regional financial markets, on the leading edge of what the rest of the world might experience in turn. About the speakers: Jacqueline Chan is a partner in Milbank’s Singapore office, previously based in Hong Kong. She advises on a wide range of interna...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring Milbank partners Allan Marks and John Williams , this episode explores how financial markets are dealing with risk and uncertainty caused by the pandemic and assesses how the Federal Reserve’s liquidity measures are stabilizing credit markets. About the speakers: Based in Milbank’s New York office, John Williams leads the Derivatives practice at Milbank globally and is a...

Send us Fan Mail Featuring Milbank partner Allan Marks and Pro Bono Counsel Anthony Perez Cassino , this episode explores how COVID-19 impacts the firm’s pro bono clients and is altering the ways in which legal aid organizations operate and support their clients. Mr. Cassino also discusses how Milbank attorneys are adapting to provide pro bono service remotely during the pandemic both in the Unite...

Send us Fan Mail It takes judgment and expertise to navigate through challenging times and to understand at a deeper level how law, policy and markets dynamically intersect. With host and Milbank   partner Allan Marks and other Milbank partners, discover what’s happening, what it means, and what’s next in Season 1 of Law, Policy & Markets: Milbank Conversations .  For more information and insi...