Amy Kennedy

Mar 12, 2024 | lexology.com | Sergio A. Urias |Amy Wollensack |Anna K. Abram |Shariff Barakat |Jesse Betts |Laura Black | +20 more

The year 2023 will be remembered as a challenging year for private equity, with complexities to navigate on many fronts. Traditional debt financing was expensive and scarce, expectations on valuations were tricky to navigate, portfolio companies required additional attention, fundraising was not easy and regulators continued to scale up their scrutiny of the industry and its transactions.

Aug 14, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Amy Kennedy |Ezra Zahabi

What’s New? A new European Union (EU) Directive on Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers (the Directive)1 requires investors who acquire, manage, or sell non-performing loans (NPLs), issued by EU-authorised credit institutions (EU Banks) in the secondary market, to engage an appropriately authorised EU entity, including an EU credit servicer or become appropriately authorised as a credit servicer by an EU financial regulatory authority.

Aug 11, 2023 | akingump.com | Ezra Zahabi |Amy Kennedy

What’s New? A new European Union (EU) Directive on Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers (the Directive)1  requires investors who acquire, manage, or sell non-performing loans (NPLs), issued by EU-authorised credit institutions (EU Banks) in the secondary market, to engage an appropriately authorised EU entity, including an EU credit servicer or become appropriately authorised as a credit servicer by an EU financial regulatory authority.

May 11, 2023 | lexology.com | Amy Kennedy |Stacey Mitchell

Click here to listen to the audioIn this latest episode of the firm’s Accelerate ESG series, Akin environmental, social & governance, or ESG, group co-leaders Amy Kennedy and Stacey Mitchell discuss the firm’s recently issued 2023 ESG Survey of noteworthy trends and developments in that field, as well as the ESG environment on both sides of the Atlantic.