October 2015

DAMITT – How Long Does it Take to Conduct U.S. Antitrust Merger Investigations?

By Paul Denis, Michael Weiner & Crunched Credit on October 26, 2015

Dechert’s Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT) finds that significant antitrust merger investigations in the U.S. currently are taking 10 months which is about 30%−40% longer than in prior years.
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Risk Retention: Flash – These Rules Don’t Work!

By Rick Jones on October 12, 2015

As we begin to close in on the initial implementation of the Risk Retention Rule, we are looking beyond the headlines and trying to figure out how the Rule will actually work. The result is troubling.
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