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Anna Pinedo is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice. She concentrates her practice on securities and derivatives. Anna represents issuers, investment banks/financial intermediaries and investors in financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, as well as structured notes and other hybrid and structured products.

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Insurance companies have been busily accessing the capital markets in 2024 and in 2025 with traditional debt offerings, as well as with hybrid capital and structured solutions, including P-CAPs and funding-agreement backed notes (FABNs) transactions. In fact, the volume of FABN

Last week, the US federal banking regulators proposed changes to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (“eSLR”) requirement for US global systemically important bank holding companies (“US GSIBs”). This proposal is intended to reduce the likelihood of the eSLR requirement being the binding capital constraint for US GSIBs and, thereby, enhance the ability of US GSIBs

Pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act, the Investor Advocate is required to file two reports annually with the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives, which include the mid-year Report on Objectives for the forthcoming fiscal year and end of year

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The convertible bond market has been active as companies refinance converts issued during the pandemic.  Driven by a high interest rate environment and ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, companies issued over $86