Swaps in Commercial Finance Transactions: Coordinating Loan Terms With the ISDA Master Agreement and Schedule
Documenting Covenants, Security, Voting and Control, Reporting, and Regulatory Issues
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide finance counsel on how interest rate swaps and other derivative products are used to hedge risk in loan transactions, how derivatives terms are appropriately integrated into loan documentation, and how to document the swap transaction to ensure consistency with the loan.
Outline
- Use of derivatives to hedge risk in loan transactions
- Integration of derivatives into loan documentation and coordination with derivative documentation
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How derivatives products are used to hedge risk in commercial finance and other loan transactions
- Certain Dodd-Frank Act regulatory considerations
- Best practices for integrating derivatives terms into loan documentation
- Best practices for ensuring that the derivatives documentation is consistent with the financing terms
- The end of LIBOR and considerations for both derivatives and loan documentation
Faculty
Alexander P. Fraser
Partner
Michael Best & Friedrich
Mr. Fraser serves as primary outside counsel to national, regional, and community banks on interest rate swaps, foreign... | Read More
Mr. Fraser serves as primary outside counsel to national, regional, and community banks on interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, commodities, and other derivatives product lines, including documentation for customer transactions and Dodd-Frank Act compliance. In addition, he represents end-users on interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, commodities, and other derivatives transactions and compliance. He also practices in the areas of commercial lending, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. As a lending attorney, he has represented financial institutions and borrowers in a broad range of transactions, including: secured and unsecured credit transactions of all sizes and types, loan syndications and participations, leveraged buyout financings, reorganizations and workouts and correspondent banking transactions.
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Cheryl L. Isaac
Partner
Michael Best & Friedrich
Ms. Isaac represents financial institutions, energy companies, and commodity trading firms (including both end-users... | Read More
Ms. Isaac represents financial institutions, energy companies, and commodity trading firms (including both end-users and swap dealers) on a variety of derivatives transactions, and drafts documentation for interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, commodities, and other derivatives product lines. She assists clients on compliance with Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act and all related regulations. She has extensive experience advising clients on a range of derivatives and banking-related regulatory issues such as cross-border trading, federal deposit insurance, capital and margin requirements, and swap dealer registration.
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